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Marshall McEwan is one of the most successful journalists in Washington, DC. But his father is terminally ill, and he must return to his childhood home - a place he vowed he would never go back to.Bienville, Mississippi, is no longer the city Marshall remembers. His family's 150-year-old newspaper is failing, and Jet Talal, the love of his youth, has married into the family of Max Matheson, one of a dozen powerful patriarchs who rule the town through the exclusive Bienville Poker Club. The city's only hope of economic salvation is a new, billion-dollar Chinese paper mill. But on the verge of the deal's consummation, two deaths rock Bienville to its core.Joining forces with his former lover, Marshall begins digging for the truth. But he and Jet soon discover that the soil of Mississippi is a minefield where explosive secrets can be far more destructive than injustice.

The Story Of A Nameless Father And Son Trying To Survive With Their Humanity Intact In A Postapocalyptic Wasteland Where Earth's Natural Resources Have Been Diminished, And Some Survivors Are Left To Raise Others For Meat, The Road Is One Of Cormac Mccarthy's Bleakest And Most Prescient Novels. Dedicated To His Son, John Francis Mccarthy, Mccarthy's The Road Is One Of His Most Personal Novels. Ranked 17th On The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Of The 21st Century, It Was The Recipient Of The Pulitzer Prize For Literature, The James Tait Black Memorial Award, The Believer Award, And Was Nominated For The National Book Critics Circle Award. This First Official Graphic Novel Adaptation Of Mccarthy's Work Is Illustrated By Acclaimed French Cartoonist Manu Larcenet, Who Ably Transforms The World Depicted By Mccarthy's Spare And Brutal Prose Into Stark Ink Drawings That Add An Additional Layer To This Haunting Tale Of Family Love And Human Perseverance. Cormac Mccarthy Personally Approved The Making Of This Book Before His Death, And The Adaptation Bears The Approval Of The Mccarthy Estate-- Provided By Publisher.

Soon to be a TV Series on AMC starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer. Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood, and power that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching examination of the bloody price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American west with rare emotional acuity, even as it presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries. Eli McCullough is just twelve-years-old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead and brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him as a captive. Despite their torture and cruelty, Eli--against all odds--adapts to life with the Comanche, learning their ways, their language, taking on a new name, finding a place as the adopted son of the chief of the band, and fighting their wars against not only other Indians, but white men, too-complicating his sense of loyalty, his promised vengeance, and his very understanding of self. But when disease, starvation, and westward expansion finally decimate the Comanche, Eli is left alone in a world in which he belongs nowhere, neither white nor Indian, civilized or fully wild. Deftly interweaving Eli’s story with those of his son, Peter, and his great-granddaughter, JA, The Son deftly explores the legacy of Eli’s ruthlessness, his drive to power, and his life-long status as an outsider, even as the McCullough family rises to become one of the richest in Texas, a ranching-and-oil dynasty of unsurpassed wealth and privilege. Harrowing, panoramic, and deeply evocative, The Son is a fully realized masterwork in the greatest tradition of the American canon-an unforgettable novel that combines the narrative prowess of Larry McMurtry with the knife edge sharpness of Cormac McCarthy.

During the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to California in search of a better life. Can hope defeat poverty, illness, hunger, and even death as they follow their dream? (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).

A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape‚ covered with the ashes of “the late world.” The man can still remember the time before — but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival‚ and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender‚ despairing and hopeful‚ spare of language and profoundly moving‚ The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery‚ and the essential — sometime terrifying — power of filial love. It is a masterpiece.

“We all set our sights on the Great American Novel. . . . [Thomas Maltman] comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail.”—Madison Smartt Bell, The Boston Globe“Maltman’s prose and pacing flow from an expert hand. . . . His gaze is unflinching and balanced. . . . And while there is much loss in the novel, in the end there is salvation.”—Robin Vidimos, Denver Post“Maltman’s writing is most lucid when he explores the German folklore, Dakota mysticism, and pioneer spirituality that shape his characters’ understanding of their own harsh world.”—Entertainment Weekly“Thomas Maltman’s debut novel, The Night Birds, soars and sings like a feathered angel.”—Chicago Sun-Times“[Maltman] excels at giving even his most harrowing scenes an understated realism and at painting characters who are richly, sometimes disturbingly human. The novel sustains its tension right to the moment it ends.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)“[A] flawless sense of history marked by its most revealing—and harrowing—details.”—BooklistThe intertwining story of three generations of German immigrants to the Midwest—their clashes with slaveholders, the Dakota uprising and its aftermath—is seen through the eyes of young Asa Senger, named for an uncle killed by an Indian friend. It is the unexpected appearance of Asa’s aunt Hazel, institutionalized since shortly after the mass hangings of thirty-eight Dakota warriors in Mankato in 1862, that reveals to him that the past is as close as his own heartbeat.Thomas Maltman lives in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. This is his first novel.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas--Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'Cormac McCarthy's violent lyric masterpiece, Blood Meridian acquires an amoral, apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language ...It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose' Irish Times 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect ...He is a great writer' Independent 'A bloody and starkly beautiful tale' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times

Die Courtneys haben sich am südlichsten Zipfel Afrikas niedergelassen. Inmitten einer hollândischen Kolonie am Kap der Guten Hoffung erhofft sich die Familie, angeführt von den Brüdern Tom und Dorian, einen Neubeginn. Eines Tages jedoch treibt ein wilder Sturm ein Sträflingsschiff in den Hafen. Es kommt zu einem schicksalhaften Zusammentreffen mit einer jungen Frau, die zu Unrecht als Slave verschifft wurde. Danach stehen die Courtneys auf der schwarzen Listen und sind gezwungen ins unerforschte Hinterland Afrikas zu fliehen – ein ebenso gefährliche als auch atemberaubendes Reise in die Wildnis. Doch auch hier kann der Courtney Clan seiner Vergangenheit nicht entkommen. Kinder werden Eltern gegenüber stehen, Brüder Brüdern, in einem Kampf bis aufs Blut, Courtney Blut. Auf Genaueste recherchiert wird hier Afrika und seine Geschichte lebendig. 'Wüstenkönig' ist das Meisterwerk eines auf seinem Zenith stehenden Schriftstelllers.