Nic Pizzolatto

Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, a dark and visceral debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston by a young writer with a hard edge to his potent literary style On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Known “without affection” to members of the boss’s crew as “Big Country” on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots, Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Which it is. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, which is to say that after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas—an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. The girl’s name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy—and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston’s country-western bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes. Any chance that they will find safety there is soon lost. Rocky is a girl with quite a story to tell, one that will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come in this powerful and atmospheric thriller, impossible to put down. Constructed with maximum tension and haunting aftereffect, written in darkly beautiful prose, Galveston announces the arrival of a major new literary talent.

A Novel

Galveston

Between Here and the Yellow Sea

Roy Cady er dødssyk, har lungene fulle av kreft og har ingenting å leve for. Han har tidligere hatt en kort flørt med sjefens kjæreste, og skjønner godt at oppdraget han nå blir sendt på, kan være en potensiell dødsfelle. Men etter en røyktung voldsscene er Roy fortsatt i live og de andre er døde. Roy rømmer og finner en skamslått kvinne. Noe i blikket hennes får ham til å ta henne med seg, og et slags vennskap oppstår på lugubre barer og moteller. I følge forlaget et denne en stor, trist og kraftfull thriller skrevet i mørk og vakker prosa. Nic Pizzolatto er manusforfatter til TV-serien True Detective. Dette er hans første roman. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

Saklan Kaç Vur

A debut collection of short fiction from this National Magazine Award in Fiction finalist. Set in a variety of Southern and Midwestern landscapes — from Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka State Park to a crop circle at a Minnesotan farm — the stories in 'Between Here and the Yellow Sea' excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and, sometimes, between their inner and outer selves. In this both heartbreaking and humorous collection, we meet a base-jumping, samurai park ranger who parachutes off the St. Louis Arch; a stained glass artist who struggles over his masterpiece and learns through great loss what his true subject will be; and a religious elementary school teacher who tries to understand her rebellious, militant son. In the title story, which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, an orphaned young man and his former high school football coach set out to kidnap the coach’s daughter from Los Angeles and bring her back to east Texas. With an assured, poignant voice, Pizzolatto places us at the crossroads of memory and desire, somewhere between here and the Yellow Sea.

A debut anthology of short fiction set against the diverse backdrops of the South and Midwest explores the baffling mysteries of the human heart and the complexities of human relationships, in stories about a samurai park ranger, a stained glass artist, a religious elementary school teacher and her militant son, and a young orphan and his former high-school football coach.

Stories

Criador da série True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto conjuga sensibilidade e talento narrativo a uma extraordinária voz contemporânea em coletânea surpreendente que explora a ambiguidade do coração humano Um guarda-florestal salta de um arco de 200 metros de altura. Um artista tenta construir sua obra-prima em um castelo. Uma professora procura o filho desaparecido seguindo rastros de um estêncil manchado de tinta. Um jovem e seu ex-técnico de futebol americano viajam para sequestrar uma garota. Os personagens de Daqui até o Mar Amarelo e outros contos são pessoas comuns, mas a narrativa de suas jornadas nada usuais se aprofunda nas incertezas da existência humana, sem, no entanto, tentar desvendá-la. Em uma viagem por onze histórias que visitam lugares e realidades às vezes muito distantes, o leitor é apresentado a uma miríade de experiências universais: memória e desejo, saudade e perda, um mergulho na realidade crua dos relacionamentos humanos e nos desafios mais íntimos com os quais todos podemos nos depararem qualquer fase da vida. Ao unir em suas tramas crueldade, amor, solidão e amizade, Nic Pizzolatto explora os limites tênues entre o bem e o mal, o certo e o errado, enquanto seus personagens tentam transpor os abismos entre eles e os outros, entre o passado e o presente e, às vezes, os abismos ainda maiores que os separam de si mesmos.

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