Serena - Couverture souple

Rash, Ron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2253161462 ISBN 13 : 9782253161462

Editeur : Le Livre de Poche, 2012

Synopsis

Années 1930, Smoky Mountains. George Pemberton, riche exploitant forestier, et sa femme Serena forment un couple de prédateurs mégalos, déterminés à couper tous les arbres à portée de main pour accroître leur fortune. Mais le projet d'aménagement d'un parc national, pour lequel l'État convoite leurs terres, menace leurs ambitions. Pemberton s'emploie à soudoyer banquiers et politiciens. Sans états d'âme, Serena a d'autres arguments : le fusil, le couteau, le poison, et un homme de main dévoué. Après Un pied au paradis, Ron Rash nous propose un drame élisabéthain sur fond de Dépression et de capitalisme sans foi ni foi. La nature, hostile et menacée, s'y mesure âprement aux pires recoins de l'âme humaine. Ron Rash signe ici une version sauvage de la tragédie grecque, au coeur des montagnes boisées de la Caroline du Nord. Dominique Artus, Le Point.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A bloody - and bloody brilliant - story of passion and revenge. Terrific (The Times)

Bitter and brilliant . . . it could sit comfortably on any bookshelf beside Cormac McCarthy or Charles Frazier . . . the plot moves with precision, beautifully wrought. The author's acute sense of place is evident on every page (Guardian)

A stunningly effective novel that is stark, fierce, dramatic and gripping from its unforgettable opening paragraph (Janet Maslin New York Times, Top Ten Books of 2008)

It's too hypnotic to break away from. Innocent people are in peril, and calamity seems as unstoppable . . . The final chapter is as flawless and captivating as anything I've read this year (Washington Post)

Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy, while the malignant character of Serena, who projects a "stark unflinching certainty" about her actions, propels his finely paced story (New Yorker)

If Serena becomes famous as the basis for a coming Jennifer Lawrence-Bradley Cooper movie, never forget that it began as a fierce, breathtaking book, one of the greatest American novels in recent memory (New York Times 2013-02-27)

In an age when literary fiction is so intent on subtlety that it often winds up virtually inert, a novel with this much uncomplicated gusto and narrative drive is a rare thing; in the case of Serena, it's also a welcome one (Salon)

A searing tragedy of Shakespearean proportions - or, in simpler terms, a damn good book that will keep you awake far too late and, well after you've finished it, haunt your dreams (Julia Glass, author of THREE JUNES)

A gorgeous, brutal novel (Richard Price, author of LUSH LIFE) --Guardian

Quatrième de couverture :

A New York Times notable book of the year

Award-winning and New York Times bestselling novelist Ron Rash conjures a gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge with a ruthless, powerful, and unforgettable woman at its heart, set amid the wilds of 1930s North Carolina and against the backdrop of America's burgeoning environmental movement.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Le Livre de Poche
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 2253161462
• ISBN 13: 9782253161462
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 528