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The Cutting Season

Autor Attica Locke
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2013
By the prize-winning author of Heaven My Home, a taut crime novel perfect for reading groups.Bury your bodies deep and your secrets deeper.Just after dawn, Caren inspects the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she manages. Back at her office, the gardener calls to tell her she missed something. Something terrible. At a distance, she didn't see. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean.So there will be police, asking questions. The family who own Belle Vie will have to be told. There's a school group on the way to visit. Where is Donovan, the member of staff no one has seen? And all the time, Caren is thinking that there are only so many keys, only so many ways in to Belle Vie with its six foot high perimeter fence. And as she lives on site with her daughter, she wonders: how much danger are they in?A thriller with as much heart as it has pace, Attica Locke combines a riveting mystery with a shattering story of how our history is never just the past.
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ISBN-13: 9781846688041
ISBN-10: 1846688043
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 128 x 202 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile Books Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Book of the Month, Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.

Recenzii

Rich in atmosphere, strong in story, hinges on human complexity
Genuinely unnerving ... interested in subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history
Locke was shortlisted for the Orange prize for her debut. This is even better
Far more than a crime novel, covers the fallout from divorce, regret, poverty and bitter family secrets
An intelligent and beguiling mystery that examines how our past haunts our present, told by a unique voice in contemporary crime fiction
Attica Locke 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
Attica Locke is a stand-out in every way
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
A good crime novel on its own, but Locke has woven through it an engrossing exploration of freedom in all its trickiest aspects ... an involving and moving novel
A well-crafted warning about the damage wrought - generational, social, romantic - when the past is distorted or denied
Beautifully conveys the atmosphere of a sad past haunting a benighted present
This is a highly engrossing and genuinely thought-provoking piece of crime fiction: one that reminds us of the genre's potential to go well beyond simple entertainment
A subtle thriller with real historical heft

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From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire:
The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of Wench
After her breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. Black Water Rising was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.