9780374532888-0374532885-Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

ISBN-13: 9780374532888
ISBN-10: 0374532885
Edition: Original
Author: Frank Bill
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: FSG Originals
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374532888
ISBN-10: 0374532885
Edition: Original
Author: Frank Bill
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: FSG Originals
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories (ISBN-13: 9780374532888 and ISBN-10: 0374532885), written by authors Frank Bill, was published by FSG Originals in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.05.

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A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill's southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy's eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell's Missouri Ozarks

Crimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in recent years. Frank Bill delivers what is both a wake-up call and a gut punch. 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.

Bill's people are pressed to the brink―and beyond. There is Scoot McCutchen, whose beloved wife falls terminally ill, leaving him with nothing to live for―which doesn't quite explain why he brutally murders her and her doctor and flees, or why, after years of running, he decides to turn himself in. In the title story, a man who has devolved from breeding hounds for hunting to training them for dog-fighting crosses paths with a Salvadoran gangbanger tasked with taking over the rural drug trade, but who mostly wants to grow old in peace. As Crimes in Sourthern Indiana unfolds, we witness the unspeakable, yet are compelled to find sympathy for the depraved.

Bill's southern Indiana is haunted with the deep, authentic sense of place that recalls the best of Southern fiction, but the interconnected stories bristle with the urban energy of a Chuck Palahniuk or a latter-day Nelson Algren and rush with the slam-bang plotting of pulp-noir crime writing à la Jim Thompson. Bill's prose is gritty yet literary, shocking, and impossible to put down. A dark evocation of the survivalist spirit of the working class, this is a brilliant debut by an important new voice.

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