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Frank Bill is back with a gritty, wrenching novel from deep inside the traumas of a broken American heartland. Miles is a Vietnam veteran who’s worried he’s going to lose his job—and with it his tenuous grasp on a stable life—over a fight with a coworker. His PTSD and struggles to control his steroid-fueled violent tendencies also complicate his relationship with his girlfriend, Shelby, a stripper who only occasionally displays the proverbial heart of gold. She’s certainly kinder and more generous than her brother, Wylie, who has been implicated in the deaths of two local Oxy dealers and is currently on the run. When Wylie kidnaps Shelby and holes up in Miles’s country lair, it all threatens to become a bit too much for Miles. As Frank Bill peels back the layers of Miles’s history, going deep into his memories of the Vietnam War, Back to the Dirt gets to the root of the traumas that have caused Miles and his community so much adversity. In this blistering novel, Bill reaches for the core values—living close to the land, working with your hands—that have been obscured by generations of neglect, drug abuse, and desperation. This is a profound and important story of an America that is only beginning to get its due attention—and Frank Bill is its most visceral, essential chronicler.

"A sequel to Bill''s novel Donnybrook, The Savage is a hero''s journey in a dystopian, violent, and chaotic American Midwest"--

Welcome to heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept the white on the picket fences have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Bill''s people are pressed to the brink--and beyond.

A three-day bare-fisted fighting tournament in rural Indiana pits a desperate man trying to feed his children with a ruthless and undefeated master fighter turned meth-cooker in this new novel from the author of Crimes in Southern Indiana. Original. 30,000 first printing.

A young boxer named Salvador refuses to take a fall, but has no problem taking a vicious drug gang''s pay-off. When they take their lethal revenge on Salvador and his family, he returns as The Crow, in search of vengeance... and forgiveness.

Retrouvez dans ce dossier gratuit les premiers chapitres de 15 titres incontournables pour vos lectures d''été, dans les collections Blanche, Série Noire et Du monde entier : Donnybrook (de Franck Bill), Noces de charbon (de Sophie Chauveau), Expo 58 (de Jonathan Coe), I Cursini (d''Alix Deniger), L''emprise (de Marc Dugain), Réparer les vivants (de Maylis de Kerangal), Ni toi ni moi (de Camille Laurens), Tempête (de J.M.-G. Le Clézio), Dernière récolte (d''Attica Locke), Opération Sweet Tooth (de Ian McEwan), Police (de Jo Nesbo), Cevdet Bey et ses fils (d''Orhan Pamuk), Le collier rouge (de Jean-Christophe Rufin), L''affaire Collini (de Ferdinand von Schirach) et S''abandonner à vivre (de Sylvain Tesson). Vous pouvez accéder directement à chaque extrait par la table des matières de ce dossier ou lire les extraits à la suite. Retrouvez aussi photographie et biographie des auteurs. Tous ces livres numériques sont en vente chez votre libraire.

Bienvenue dans l''Amérique profonde d''aujourd''hui, où les jobs syndiqués et les fermes familiales qui alimentaient les revendications sociales des Blancs ont cédé la place aux labos de meth, au trafic d''armes et aux combats de boxe à mains nues. Les protagonistes de Frank Bill sont des hommes et des femmes acculés au point de rupture - et bien au-delà. Pour un résultat toujours stupéfiant. Si le sud de l''Indiana dépeint par Frank Bill est hanté par un profond sentiment d''appartenance à une région qui rappelle le meilleur de la littérature du Sud, ses nouvelles vibrent aussi de toute l''énergie urbaine d''un Chuck Palahniuk, et révèlent un sens de l''intrigue décapant, inspiré de l''écriture noire à la Jim Thompson. Une prose nerveuse, à vif, impitoyable et haletante, qui fait l''effet à la fois d''une douche glacée et d''un coup de poing à l''estomac.

Denne novellesamlingen beskriver et Amerika man ikke kan forestille seg. Vi møter menn og kvinner som beveger seg på knivseggen og sjeldent har noe godt i vente fra det moderne Amerika. Fagorganisert arbeid og familiegårder som styrte folks liv, er erstattet med metaamfetaminlaboratorier, væpnede narkobander i skogen og nevekamper. Frank Bill debuterer med denne samlingen.