My Sunshine Away - Couverture souple

Walsh, M.O.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241004063 ISBN 13 : 9780241004067

Editeur : Viking, 2015

Synopsis

One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts blocking the path. She is raped just yards from her front door. No one sees a thing and the perpetrator is not caught.

Her fourteen-year-old neighbour has loved Lindy from afar since they were kids. He becomes determined to solve the crime, investigating each suspect in the neighbourhood. But before the long, hot summer is out, it will become clear that the friendly community of Baton Rouge has much to hide. Behind the picket fences and rocking chairs on porches, behind the neighbourhood cookouts on sweltering afternoons, the vats of cold beer and cauldrons of spicy crawfish, lies a tangled web of darkness.

In his zeal to solve the crime, he stumbles across a sinister world he doesn't recognize, drawing ever closer to a terrifying denouement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

M. O. Walsh grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has written for Oxford American and The New York Times and his stories have been anthologized in Best New American Voices and Bar Stories. He currently teaches English at the University of New Orleans. My Sunshine Away is his first novel.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'I should tell you now that I was one of the suspects.
Hear me out.
Let me explain . . .'

One hot evening in early summer, 1989, fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson cycles home through the wide, empty streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her hometown is a place of cookouts on sweltering afternoons, iced tea and cauldrons of spicy crawfish, crepe myrtle trees heavy with red and purple blossoms. Lindy is just yards from her parents' house when she is knocked to the sidewalk and raped.

No one saw anything - they were indoors, escaping the sticky heat, the mosquitoes. The police draw a blank and the traumatized community does its best to rebuild and move on.

But one fourteen-year-old boy is sure there are answers still waiting to be found - out there on the swept and empty porches, by the lawns steaming in the early morning sun, under the newly broken street lamp. Secretly in love with Lindy and fascinated by her ordeal, he is drawn onward in a search for truths that may be better left buried...

Acutely wise and deeply honest, My Sunshine Away is a mesmerizing journey through the final days of childhood. M. O. Walsh spins a haunting tale of Southern suburbia, where innocence is fleeting, deceptive and all too easily corrupted.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241004063
• ISBN 13: 9780241004067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible