- Achetez un article sur amazon.fr (à l'exception des produits vendus sur la plate-forme Marketplace), et téléchargez en MP3 pour un euro de plus seulement la bande-originale Les Chansons d'Amour ou la compilation Classical Music for Lovers.
Offre valable du 01/02/2010 au 14/02/2010. Voir conditions sur les pages produits des albums concernés.
Descriptions du produit
Amazon.co.uk
Hell at the Breech tells of an often overlooked part of America's history. When we think of the lawlessness in 19th-century America's Wild West, we often forget that other parts of the USA were also frontier territories that were ruled by the gun in the late-19th century. The rural South, suffering the effects of the Civil War, was also a place of small towns, far-flung rural communities and renegade outlaws. Tom Franklin tells a fictionalised version of the Mitcham War of Clarke County, Alabama in the 1890s. When a local politician was accidentally killed, a feud developed between rural outlaws and townspeople in which lawlessness and bloodshed reached shocking proportions.
Tom Franklin weaves a captivating tale based on these events. Franklin's spare, but vivid language is in the best tradition of Southern American writing. His observant eye picks up the detail of the ignorant and violent rural poor, as well as the hypocrisy and cruelty of the town dwellers. The frightening tale of redneck murderers and vengeful townsfolk reveals the darker side of human nature in a way that avoids both easy judgement and prurience. The violent story is told with simplicity and immense power rather than gratuitousness. Franklin hints at how the violent frontier past of the USA is part of her present inheritance, and so holds up a mirror to a society that is at once deeply religious and deeply violent. Franklin is a writer to watch. He explores powerful themes within a gripping story without apology. Like the hero of his story, he exercises restraint and dignity, but he shoots straight. --Dwight Longenecker
From Publishers Weekly
This immensely accomplished novel by the author of the Edgar Award-winning short story collection Poachers is based on a real-life feud in the 1890s that pitted the underclass-poor, mostly white sharecroppers-of Clarke County, Ala., against the land-owning gentry who could and did control their fate. But that simple summary does not do justice to the complex and incredibly violent events that shook the community. The seeds of the violent uprising are planted when Macky Burke, a poor, white teenage orphan living with his grandmother, the widow Gates, accidentally shoots local merchant Arch Bedsole during a holdup. Arch's enraged cousin, Quincy "Tooch" Bedsole, a down-at-the-heels farmer, cultivates those seeds with a mixture of resentment, greed and a desire for vengeance. He forms the "Hell-at-the-Breech" gang, made up of criminals and struggling white tenant farmers who but for their guns are nearly as powerless as the former slaves they compete with for work. Hell-at-the-Breech terrorizes Clarke County, exacting frontier justice (and cash) from the exploitative landowners, driving black sharecroppers out of the county and menacing the white farmers who are too law-abiding to join their ranks. Fighting the outbreak of violence is Sheriff Billy Waite, an essentially good man trying to keep the peace and administer justice in a lawless world. Despite an unremitting catalogue of violence, this gory book is a pleasure to read for its clean, unexpected turns of phrase (in a cotton field, "each tuft [is] white as a senator's eyebrow"); the laconic humor of its characters ("Rumors fly out of Mitcham Beat like hair in a catfight"); and vibrant, complex characters who spring from the pages. Franklin may have used history as a starting point, but he imagines the events in human terms, creating a book that transmutes historical fact into something much more powerful, dramatic and compelling.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
Détails sur le produit
Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?
|
Dans ce livre
(En savoir plus)
Parcourir et rechercher une autre édition de ce livre.
Parcourir et rechercher une autre édition de ce livre.
Première phrase
DAWN CREPT UP OUT OF THE TREES, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he' spent the night trying to comprehend. Lire la première page
Couverture | Copyright | Extrait | Quatrième de couverture
DAWN CREPT UP OUT OF THE TREES, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he' spent the night trying to comprehend. Lire la première page
En découvrir plus
Concordance
Parcourir les pages échantillonConcordance
Couverture | Copyright | Extrait | Quatrième de couverture
Associer des mots-clés à ce produit(De quoi s'agit-il ?)Considérez votre mot-clé comme une sorte d'étiquette définissant parfaitement ce produit.
Les mots-clés aident les clients à organiser et trouver leurs articles favoris. |
Commentaires en ligne
|
Il n'y a pour l'instant aucun commentaire client.
|
|||
|
Commentaires vidéo
|
Listmania!
Rechercher des articles similaires par rubrique
Rechercher des articles similaires par thème
Commentaires
Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?
Votre historique récent
(Qu'est-ce ?)|
Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent. |
