Chiennes de vie
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782070135356 (2070135357)
Publish date: January 10th 2013
Publisher: Gallimard
Pages no: 248
Edition language: French
Category:
Literature,
American,
Anthologies,
Mystery,
Crime,
Noir,
Southern,
Short Stories,
American Fiction,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic
The last time I read a book set in Indiana it was about The Greatest Town in America (First in Friendship, Fourth in Obesity). Throw in Hoosiers, the occasional Pacers game, and a high-school production of The Music Man I saw when I was, at most, ten, and you've pretty much covered the extent of my ...
23/4 - I've never read anything like it, just as the inside front cover predicted. It's nothing like what I was expecting either. It doesn't really have a blub anywhere on the book, so from the title and front cover image I was expecting either true crime or horror revolving around isolated farms ow...
What the actual fuck? Oh no, Mr. Bill indeed! Wow, these are some truly twisted and excellent stories. Frank Bill is in the same rarified hillbilly noir company as Daniel Woodrell and Donald Pollack. When I say that, I am saying you should read this immediately.
Collection of brutally violent short stories set, like the title states, in Southern Indiana. I preferred the stories that were a bit less violent and while the author's writing style was a bit overdone for my tastes I will look for his first novel.
11 years ago
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