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Crimes In Southern Indiana: Stories (2011)

by Frank Bill(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374532885 (ISBN13: 9780374532888)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

FSG Originals

review 1: La note serait plus près d'un 4,5 en réalité. Un bon recueil de nouvelles, qui sont unis par des personnages et des lieux qui se recouppent à travers plusieurs années. Des histoires intéressantes, assez violentes, avec des personnages uniques, mais auxquels on s'attachent peu, ce qui est probablement la plus grande faiblesse du livre, et qui se dérolent dans une vision de l'Indiana très sombres et, je l'ai déjà dit, assez violente. Un bon recueil qui sans réinventer la roue, mérite d'être lu!
review 2: An engaging but rather uneven debut collection. Bill's subject is the American redneck: his characters are poor, desperate, and brutish. Their hobbies include coon hunting, dog fighting, drunk driving, meth smoking, fist fighting, and other assorted ... moreforms of hell-raising. These violent, action-packed stories are given an extra charge from Bill's lean, jagged prose style. At their best, they combine the propulsive readability of high-octane pulp with an understated sense of emotional resonance and thematic ambiguity. Much of the time, however, the stories suffer from the fact that they are so similar in style and content; Bill is not yet a talent enough writer to bring the same verve and vitality to each of these 17 white-trash variations. A promising enough debut that I'll track down more of Bill's work in the future. less

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