Fighter

Now filmed as Rumble Through the Dark

AvMichael Farris Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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THE ACRES AND ACRES OF FERTILE SOIL - THE TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD ANTEBELLUM HOUSE - ALL GONEAnd so is the woman who gave it to him. The foster mother who saved Jack Boucher from a childhood of abandonment now rests in a hospice. Her mind eroded by dementia, the family legacy she entrusted to Jack is now owned by banks and strangers. And Jack\'s mind is failing too, as concussion after concussion forces him to carry around a notebook of names that separate friend from foe.In a single twisted night Jack is derailed. Losing the money that will clear his debt with the queen of Delta vice, and forcing Jack into the fighting pit one last time. The stakes? Nothing less than life or death.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-23
Mått:129 x 198 x undefined mm
Vikt:172 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN:9780857305800

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Michael Farris Smith is the award-winning author of Salvage This World, NICK, Blackwood, The Fighter, Desperation Road, Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers. His novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Book Riot and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has also written the feature-film adaptations of his novels Desperation Road and The Fighter, titled for the screen as Rumble Through the Dark. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.

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Like living language, literary modes have both a formal and a demotic form. What we call "noir" is high tragedy brought down to the forgotten and disavowed -- the fallen, who can do little but go on falling. Ours to witness the beauty and power of their fall. With The Fighter, cleaving to tradition, Michael Farris Smith brings that tradition brilliantly into the present