The Floodgate - Couverture rigide

Null, Matthew Neill

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1958888761 ISBN 13 : 9781958888766

Editeur : Blair, 2026

Synopsis

A former West Virginia coal miner encounters corruption and cultural upheaval working on a dam project that will submerge his town.

In the remote corner of West Virginia in the 1960s, former coal miner Lance Drennen takes a job as an overseer for the construction of an immense flood-control dam, which will drown 2800 acres of land that have been in his and other local families for generations. When Lance witnesses a terrible accident and discovers irregularities on the site that are guaranteed to line the pockets of the company and the local government, he must decide whether or not he will become a whistle-blower.

With incredible eloquence and clarity, Matthew Neill Null sets in motion the characters who will tug at either end of Lance's life: his wife, Johnny, the adoring daughter of a hell-raising radical coal miner, who has withdrawn into her own world, and Jim Koss, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Koss is the only person who can draw Johnny out, and he becomes Lance's confidante. But Koss has a secret history: he had been fired from the Washington agency designing the dam because of his communist sympathies.

In a most concrete and riveting narrative, Floodgate explores the social and economic upheavals of the era--labor unrest, political and corporate corruption, persecution of communists, the devastation of the environment--and their powerful impact on powerless communities. It is a story of loyalty to family and community, moral responsibility for personal choices, corporate greed and environmental destruction, and the depths and limits of love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Neill Null is a recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Mary McCarthy Prize, the O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. His stories appear in The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Ecotone, Oxford American, Ploughshares, Electric Literature, The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Mystery Stories. A native of West Virginia, he holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His novel, Honey from the Lion (Lookout, 2015), was short listed for the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, and his story collection, Allegheny Front (Sarabande, 2016), was named a finalist for Foreword's INDIE collection of the year. He teaches at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blair
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1958888761
• ISBN 13: 9781958888766
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible