The Palms - Couverture souple

Anderson, Clay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1736089889 ISBN 13 : 9781736089880

Editeur : Springer Mountain Press, 2023

Synopsis

A killer on parole. A little girl next door. One year of grace.

Ronnie Wells is sixty-eight years old and has been out of prison for a year. He keeps his trailer clean, works at a hardware store, and sits on his porch swing thinking about a daughter he has never met. He has not had a drink or thrown a punch since 1979, the night he killed a man with his hands.

Next door lives Mary. She is seven. Her mother, Clara, is young and beautiful and turns tricks for a pimp named Joe, and Mary has spent more nights sleeping in the back seat of a car than in a bed. When Ronnie fixes up a bicycle and teaches her to ride it, he is only trying to be kind. When he teaches her to play the guitar, he is already lost.

For one autumn in a trailer park called the Palms, three broken people make something like a family. Clara gets clean. Mary stops being afraid. Ronnie learns to pray. Then Clara relapses, Joe comes to collect, and Mary is sold to men who have no intention of giving her back.

Ronnie knows what he is. He has spent thirty-six years trying not to be it. Now the only question is whether he can be it one more time, and for how long, and whether there will be anything left of him when he is done.

This is a book about the year a bad man got to be good, and what it cost him to give it back.

Nominated for Georgia Author of the Year, The Palms is a Southern crime novel in the tradition of Larry Brown, Daniel Woodrell, and Cormac McCarthy — unflinching about addiction and poverty on the Florida panhandle, and unexpectedly tender about the people who live there.

Second edition, fully revised by the author, 2026.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Mountain Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1736089889
• ISBN 13: 9781736089880
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 261
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