The Cutting Season: A Novel - Couverture souple

Locke, Attica

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0062222813 ISBN 13 : 9780062222817

Editeur : Harper, 2012

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“One of the most engaging and gifted new voices in the genre. . . . The Cutting Season does more than exhume a body—it rattles the bones of slavery, race, class, and power to examine a crime that reverberates from more than a century ago.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

“The impressively astute Attica Locke writes . . . in much the same way that Mr. Lehane [does]. . . . Each is willing to use the murder mystery as a framework for much more ambitious, atmospheric fiction.” (New York Times)

“Compelling. . . . A mystery that expands the whole idea of the mystery, reaching from the present deeply into the past. . . . Great writing, the kind that gives you goose bumps.” (Los Angeles Times)

“Although The Cutting Season succeeds as a thriller, above all it is a well-crafted warning about the damage wrought—generational, social, romantic—when the past is distorted or denied.” (Financial Times)

“A thoughtful, well-written and absorbing read with a surprising ending.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“Dripping with southern Gothic atmosphere. . . . Equal parts murder mystery and family drama, the novel also draws readers in through its considerations of African-American history and life in post-Katrina Louisiana.” (USA Today)

“I was first struck by Attica Locke’s prose, then by the ingenuity of her narrative and finally and most deeply by the depth of her humanity. She writes with equal amounts grace and passion. . . . I’d probably read the phone book if her name was on the spine.” (Dennis Lehane)

“The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.” (Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of Wench)

“The Cutting Season is a novel about the shifting definitions of family, the persistent pull of history, the sterling promise of home, and the stunning power of love. It pulled me in and held me close to the very last page.” (Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From the acclaimed author of Black Water Rising, a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana s Sugar Cane country and one involving a slave gone missing over one hundred years earlier.

From an author whose first book drew critical acclaim, multiple prize nominations, and comparisons to Scott Turrow and Walter Mosley, comes a page-turning tour de force that dares to explore how we reconcile this country's past with its future.

Belle Vie is a plantation of genteel beauty and manicured grounds that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. For some it represents the values of the South before the Civil War, for others it's a reminder of slavery's dark legacy, a time when enforced labor fueled the economy. But when Caren Gray, the estate's manager learns that the body of a young woman has just been found lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean, it's suddenly the site of a murder investigation.

There's no telling who wanted the victim dead. A local could be making a violent statement about migrant workers, trucked in and out seasonally, only to take jobs away from families that have worked cane for generations. Or it could be someone striking out against Groveland, the corporation that managed to talk the first family in the area into selling their farm to the highest bidder.

When the investigation takes an unsavory turn, Gray is compelled to discover what, if anything, the woman's violent death has to do with an earlier mystery, one that originated in the slave quarters nearly two hundred years ago. It's a twenty-first century mystery that forces Caren to delve into the murky waters of the plantation's past - and her own - all while creeping frighteningly closer to the realization that the killer may be a lot closer than she ever could have imagined.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062222813
• ISBN 13: 9780062222817
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384