Southern Cross the Dog A Novel【電子書籍】[ Bill Cheng ]

＜p＞In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor, Bill Cheng’s ＜em＞Southern Cross the Dog＜/em＞ is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In its aftermath, one young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the past.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Having lost virtually everything in the fearsome stormーhome, family, first loveーRobert Chatham embarks on an odyssey that takes him through the deep South, from the desperation of a refugee camp to the fiery and raucous brothel Hotel Beau-Miel and into the Mississippi hinterland, where he joins a crew hired to clear the swamp and build a dam.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Along his journey he encounters piano-playing hustlers, ne’er-do-well Klansmen, well-intentioned whores, and a family of fur trappers, the L’Etangs, whose very existence is threatened by the swamp-clearing around them. The L’Etang brothers are fierce and wild but there is something soft about their co．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る