The Cutting Season - Hardcover

Locke, Attica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846689120 ISBN 13: 9781846689123

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2012

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I was first struck by Attica Locke's prose, then by the ingenuity of her narrative and finally and most deeply by the depth of her humanity. She writes with equal amounts grace and passion. After just two novels, I'd probably read the phone book if her name was on the spine (Dennis Lehane)

The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience (Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench)

An intelligent and beguiling mystery that examines how our past haunts our present, told by a unique voice in contemporary crime fiction (Stuart Neville)

Attica Locke's work raises searingly important questions that demand to be answered. The Cutting Season is about the dark possibilities that lie within us all. A thrilling read (Esi Edugyan)

Gripping, atmospheric and tragic. Top class literary crime fiction from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of Black Water Rising. (Lovereading)

This claustrophobic and highly atmospheric tale is illuminating as a portrait of a time and place. It's also a fascinating mystery story by a remarkably accomplished writer. (Literary Review)

Written with a deft hand and a clear eye, this is superior stuff. (Big Issue)

In Locke's hands this would have provided a good crime novel on its own, but she has woven through it an engrossing exploration of freedom in all its trickiest aspects ... The Cutting Season is an involving and moving novel, which shows why so many thoughtful writers choose crime fiction through which to explore their ideas (N J Cooper BookOxygen)

Locke exploits her setting well, creating some genuinely unnerving moments. But this is not a whodunit for thrill-seekers. The Cutting Season is interested in more subtle complex questions of identity, family and history (Daily Mail)

The Cutting Season is a novel firmly anchored in its place, one attempting to adjust not only to its distant past but also to more recent events: the Obama presidency, hurricane Katrina, the impact of the oil industry on the gulf. Even more timely are allusions to US election campaigns and the interplay between money and power ... above all [The Cutting Season] is a well-crafted warning about the damage wrought - generational, social, romantic - when the past is distorted or denied (Maria Crawford Financial Times)

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Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has managed for the past four years. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that has been dug up by the fence bordering the sugar cane fields. Assuming an animal has been out after dark, she asks the gardener to tidy it up. Not long afterwards, he calls her to say it's something else. Something terrible.

At a distance, Caren missed her. The body, the dirt and the blood.

Now she has police on site, an investigation in progress, and a member of staff no one can track down. And Caren keeps uncovering things she will wish she didn't know. As she's drawn into the dead woman's story, she makes shattering discoveries about the plantation's past, its future, and a killer who may be a lot closer than she thinks ...

A magnificent, sweeping story of the south, The Cutting Season brings history face-to-face with modern America. Attica Locke once again provides an unblinking commentary on politics, race, the law, family and love, all within a thriller every bit as gripping and tragic as her first novel, Black Water Rising.

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• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846689120
• ISBN 13: 9781846689123
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352