Deadwood roman (LA NOIRE) - Softcover

Pete Dexter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2070719200 ISBN 13: 9782070719204

Publisher: Gallimard, 1994

Synopsis

Ici, rien n'est normal, même le temps... Le jour de notre arrivée, on a vu deux hommes portant une tête humaine, en pleine rue... Un Mexicain avec celle d'un Indien, et une crapule qui louchait et qui s'appelait Boone May, avec la tête d'un hors-la-loi... " La réalité du Far West, véritable genèse d'une nation, est l'un des plus grands romans noirs épiques de l'histoire humaine. Elle dit toute la violence brute d'un pays dominant à ce jour le monde. Fleuves de boue dans les villes, putes contaminées à la vérole par les trappeurs, chasseurs de primes devenus shérifs, viols, meurtres, ramassis de psychopathes, de chercheurs d'or fous et de mythomanes, de Chinois brûlés dans des fours à briques, d'incendies ravageurs et de personnages célèbres... Deadwood raconte l'histoire d'un pays où la première chose à faire en se levant le matin est d'oublier ce qui est arrivé la veille... Un chef-d'œuvre.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.

About the Author

Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Paris Trout and five other novels: God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy, and Train. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee, and has contributed to many magazines, including Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy. His screenplays include Rush and Mulholland Falls. Dexter was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern South Dakota. He lives on an island off the coast of Washington.

Rob Fleder was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and the editor of SI Books during his twenty years at Time Inc. He was the editor of Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary Book, Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book, Sports Illustrated: The Football Book, and Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, among other New York Times bestsellers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gallimard
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2070719200
• ISBN 13: 9782070719204
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 478