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In the mine-riddled town of Bordon, Virginia, a group of lost souls are bound together by alcohol, small-time crime, and music. Leon is a lovesick bass player with a broken hand and a belief that next time—next time—he’ll definitely get it right; Jennifer is the bright-but-battered waitress who can’t quite escape the orbit of Arnett, the local drug dealer. When Jennifer convinces Leon to murder Arnett so she can finally be free, a dark chain of events is set in motion, its violence echoing the pain and misery that shape their fractured lives.
Dans une ancienne région minière des Appalaches ravagée par la pauvreté, l’ombre de Nitro Mountain s’étend sur la cohorte de laissés pour compte, junkies, piliers de comptoir, vauriens et marginaux sublimes qui y vivent. Jones, un musicien bluegrass qui se donne avec son groupe dans des bars glauques, prend sous son aile Leon, un jeune homme paumé qui ne se remet pas de sa rupture avec la séduisante, torturée et bouleversante Jennifer. Celle-ci a eu la mauvaise idée de tomber sous la coupe d’Arnett, un truand psychopathe aussi terrifiant que fascinant, reconnaissable au tatouage Daffy Duck qu’il porte au cou. Quand Turner, ex-flic cinglé à la gâchette facile qui a troqué son arme de service pour une arbalète, se met en tête d’arrêter Arnett, suspecté de meurtre, afin de regagner son insigne, les choses ont déjà commencé à tourner à l’aigre. Un roman noir pénétrant, des personnages tordus, désespérés, et diablement attachants : Lee Clay Johnson fait une entrée fracassante en littérature à travers ce récit envoûtant, imbibé de whiskey et de drogues dures, sur fond de musique country.
Dans une ancienne région minière des Appalaches ravagée par la pauvreté, l'ombre de Nitro Mountain s'étend sur la cohorte de laissés pour compte, junkies, piliers de comptoir, vauriens et marginaux sublimes qui y vivent. Jones, un musicien bluegrass qui se donne avec son groupe dans des bars glauques, prend sous son aile Leon, un jeune homme paumé qui ne se remet pas de sa rupture avec la séduisante, torturée et bouleversante Jennifer. Celle-ci a eu la mauvaise idée de tomber sous la coupe d'Arnett, un truand psychopathe aussi terrifiant que fascinant, reconnaissable au tatouage Daffy Duck qu'il porte au cou. Quand Turner, ex-flic cinglé à la gâchette facile qui a troqué son arme de service pour une arbalète, se met en tête d'arrêter Arnett, suspecté de meurtre, afin de regagner son insigne, les choses ont déjà commencé à tourner à l'aigre. Un roman noir pénétrant, des personnages tordus, désespérés, et diablement attachants : Lee Clay Johnson fait une entrée fracassante en littérature à travers ce récit envoûtant, imbibé de whiskey et de drogues dures, sur fond de musique country.
An astonishing, even shocking debut written with both humor and heart by, as John Casey puts it, “a natural-born writer who inhabits every one of his characters—the good, the bad, and those who swing back and forth.” Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, Nitro Mountain follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime and music. There’s Leon, a hapless bass player who can embroil himself in trouble just by getting out of bed in the morning. And his would-be girlfriend, Jennifer, who’s living with Arnett, the town’s most dangerous thug—and hoping Leon will help her poison him. And there’s Arnett himself, a psychopath for the ages—albeit so charming and deranged, so strikingly authentic, that he arrests the reader’s attention at first sight and holds it fast. His mirror image, a singer-songwriter named Jones, has his own moral issues, though at least he’s trying to be a good man. The bright if battered soul who pulls us through this story is Jennifer, a vulnerable yet strong woman struggling heroically to survive the endemic hopelessness and violence that have surrounded her since birth. Relentless? Yes, of course, but never remotely gratuitous. Every single moment is shot through with the pain and misery that inspire so much of the music these people love more than life itself.
In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supported the attack, are often given scant attention. Film clips of landing craft unloading men into the surf and battleships firing on enemy emplacements are familiar yet comparatively little is known about the contributions of the marine services and what they accomplished during the Normandy Invasion. This book describes the Allied naval command structure for Operation Neptune and offers a comprehensive look at integrated offshore operations--how they were organized, who the sailors were and what they experienced.
Author : Richard White Publisher : University of Toronto Press Page : 316 pages File Size : 46,6 Mb Release : 1999-01-01 Category : Biography & Autobiography ISBN : 0802008879
"This study is an important contribution to our understanding of the professionalization of civil engineering, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde–like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corn dog is the “backbone of this great country.” “There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is perfect.” —Bill Callahan “He told her he was a one-woman man and she was it for him. Teal said that was good because he was it for her. It and It. Both of them were It.” Kody Rawlee Green is stuck in juvie. Tella “Teal Cartwheels” Carticelli is packing her bags for Rome--on the orders of her parents, who want her as far from Kody as possible. But teenage love is too strong a force for the obstacles of reality. And the highway beckons. Leaving their abusive pasts behind them in Jersey, Kody and Teal set off on a cross-country road trip equal parts self-destruction and self-discovery, making their way, one stolen car at a time, toward bigger, wider, bluer skies. Along the road, of course, there’s time to stop at Graceland, classic diners, a fairgrounds that smells of “pony shit and kettle corn," and time for run-ins with outsize personalities like the reincarnated Grand Canyon tour guide Dead Bob and the spurious Montana rancher Bill Gold. On their heels, all the while, is Teal’s brother, Neil Carticelli, who’s abandoned his post in the navy to rescue the sister he left behind. But does she really need saving? These all too American tropes find new expression in Bud Smith’s own freewheeling prose—and in Rae Buleri’s original illustrations—filling Teenager with humor, poetry, and a joy that’s palpable in every unforgettable sentence. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
