Crimes in Southern Indiana
Author(s): Frank Bill
Welcome to Heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept the white on the picket fences have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Frank Bill's "Southern Indiana" is haunted by a deep, abiding sense of place, and his people are men and women pressed to the brink - and beyond. They are survivors, and in Frank Bill's hands, their stories bristle with noir energy.
General Information
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Windmill Books
- : 0.21
- : 01 January 2013
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Frank Bill
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813.6
- : very good
- : 288
More About The Product
A blistering and fearless slice of gut-wrenching hill-billy noir from a superb new talent
Brutal and intoxicating. Guardian Take American gothic + Tarantino + 1 cup of human blood. Liquidise in blender. Result: The great stories of Frank Bill -- Alan Warner An astonishingly powerful debut book...It's a brutal rabbit punch of a book - a shotgun blast in the chest of literature and a crystal meth hit to the reader.Remarkable. -- Doug Johnstone Big Issue Amazing collection.It's all overshadowed by a Southern Indiana landscape that proves eerily ideal for guns, hunting, secret meth labs and the casual infliction of terrible pain. 270 pages of gripping and harrowing shitloads of it. Dazed and Confused There's a whiskey-gargling swagger to [Frank Bill's] Cormac McCarthy-style prose, and each noir tale is savagely addictive. Shortlist
Frank Bill lives and writes in Southern Indiana. CRIMES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA is his first book.