The Devil Is a Southpaw: A Novel - Couverture souple

Hobson, Brandon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0063259648 ISBN 13 : 9780063259645

Editeur : Ecco, 2026

Synopsis

Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

A haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances, from the acclaimed writer of The Removed

Milton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention center in the late 1980s. Until Matthew escaped, that is.

A novel within a novel, we read here Milton’s dark, sometimes comic, and possibly unreliable account of the story of their childhood even as, years later, he remains jealous of Matthew’s extraordinary abilities and unlikely success. Milton reveals secrets about their friendship, their families, and their nightmarish, surreal, experience of imprisonment. In revisiting the past, he explores the echoing traumas of incarceration and pride.

Filled with Brandon Hobson’s swirling yet visceral writing, and punctuated with original artwork, The Devil Is a Southpaw is an ambitious, elegant, and propulsive novel in the spirit of Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brandon Hobson is the author of five novels including The Devil is a Southpaw, a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and The Removed. His novel Where the Dead Sit Talking was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. Hobson is the David A. Burr Endowed Chair of Letters in Creative Writing at the University of Oklahoma. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation tribe of Oklahoma. This is his first short story collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0063259648
• ISBN 13: 9780063259645
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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