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Benjamin ha undici anni, anche se ne dimostra al massimo otto, e gli occhi di un cane rabbioso. Il padre Jeremiah, ossessionato dall'apocalisse, ha deciso di vivere nei boschi isolato dal resto del mondo, così lui si aggira per il paese affamato, con addosso solo un maglione che pare appeso alle spalle. Alla fine qualcuno lo segnala a Pete Snow, l'assistente sociale che lavora in quelle valli isolate del Montana. Pete ha commesso tutti gli errori possibili con la propria famiglia, e per questo ha giurato a sé stesso di non perdere nemmeno uno dei ragazzi che gli sono affidati; non importa se nel caso di Benjamin ciò significa aprirsi un varco nella nebbia di fanatismo e violenza che lo circonda. Ma a un certo punto Jeremiah viene preso di mira dai federali, e Snow si ritrova coinvolto in una caccia all'uomo dalla quale nessuno uscirà uguale a prima.
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- Pagine: 561
- Data di uscita: 12-09-2017
Recensioni
There should be fireworks shooting off for Smith Henderson's first novel, as it is a just cause for celebration. This is not to say that the subject matter is exactly festive, but the book is a triumph. Pete is a social worker in Tenmile, Montana, a place so insignificant it was named for it's dist
”He was frightened for her and what was about to happen to her and felt the fullest burden of the fact that he was indeed a thing that had happened to her too and was happening to her yet and would be for a long time to come.” Pete Snow is a good man, despite that fact, he is in the vortex of a torna Leggi tutto
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!! "We're not that bad...People fuck up. They get forgiven." optimism is nice, but it's one thing to tell yourself that, and another to live in the real world. pete snow lives in the real world. he works for the montana department of family services, where his territory covers a hu Leggi tutto
How can this not be five stars? It’s essentially a story about three lost children and this one guy’s attempt to find them. He’s a social worker. So we have a social-worker-as-alcoholic-fuckup hero. One of the kids he’s trying to save is his daughter. In the novel, it’s 1980, 81, 82, Carter into Re Leggi tutto
If you fly in the rarefied air of literary awards, you may have caught Smith Henderson’s name a few years ago when he won a Pushcart Prize and a PEN Emerging Writers Award. A 41-year-old advertising writer originally from Montana, Henderson has published a few stories in literary magazines that, lik Leggi tutto
Raw, gut wrenching and heartbreaking. Midwest America - outside the city limits exists poverty, homelessness, addiction, crime and abuse. Much less resources to help those in need. Pete Snow is a social worker living day to day attempting to protect and remove children from abusive homes. He is an a Leggi tutto
There are quite a few damn good books coming out in 2014 by fairly unknown authors, this is one of them. This is rural fuckedupness right up there with the Donald Ray Pollock and Daniel Woodrell. It's 1980, Carter is about to be ousted from the White House, Reagan's on the rise, and in a small town
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