Name: Blackwood
ISBN: 9782355848544

Michael FARRIS SMITH

Vénéneux. Après y avoir vécu un drame quand il était enfant, Colburn est de retour à Red Bluff, Mississippi. Il y trouve une ville qui se meurt en silence. Lorsque deux enfants disparaissent, les tensions alors sous-jacentes éclatent au grand jour, et la vallée s'embrase. La prose lyrique de Michael Farris Smith est à l'image du kudzu, cette plante invasive qui s'accroche à tout ce qui se trouve sur son chemin et étouffe lentement Red Bluff : plus le lecteur avance dans le livre, plus il se sent enlacé, retenu, pris au piège. Jusqu'à un final sidérant.

Blackwood

Michael Farris Smith

For years, Colburn has been haunted by his father's suicide and the rapid disintegration of his childhood home. As a teenager, Colburn fled Red Bluff, Mississippi, eager to escape his trauma and start fresh elsewhere. But when he returns to town as an adult, lured by an unshakable desire , he finds that his demons have only grown larger in his absence. In Red Bluff resides both a gift and a curse: Colburn meets and falls in love, only to have that love torn from him. The mystery of his lover's disappearance, he learns, is intertwined with that of a strange family living within the kudzu laden undergrowth of the countryside. Pulled back to his father's house, Colburn is forced to finally confront the truth. Delivered in propulsive and lyrical prose, Blackwood is the haunting story of a tortured young man, desperate for release from the strangle hold around his heart.

Chuck Mallott

Emily Perkovich

In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods. The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself -- when confronted by a strange family of drifters, the sheriff believes that the people of Red Bluff can be accepting, rational, even good. The opposite is true: this is a landscape of fear and ghosts -- of regret and violence -- transformed by the kudzu vines that have enveloped the hills around it, swallowing homes, cars, rivers, and hiding a terrible secret deeper still. Colburn, a junkyard sculptor who's returned to Red Bluff, knows this pain all too well, though he too is willing to hope for more when he meets and falls in love with Celia, the local bar owner. The Deep South gives these noble, broken, and driven folks the gift of human connection while bestowing upon them the crippling weight of generations. With broken histories and vagabond hearts, the townsfolk wrestle with the evil in the woods -- and the wickedness that lurks in each and every one of us.

Blackwood

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