Après avoir obtenu une licence d'arts plastiques à New York, Patrick Flanery a travaillé trois ans dans l'industrie du cinéma. Puis il a émigré en Angleterre, où il a obtenu un doctorat en littérature anglaise à Oxford. Il vit actuellement à Londres. Absolution (Robert Laffont, collection " Pavillons ", 2013), un premier roman époustouflant, a été lauréat de nombreux prix. En France, il a été sélectionné pour le prix du Premier roman étranger et pour le prix Page/America. Son roman Terre déchue est paru en 2016 aux Éditions Robert Laffont.
A nail-biting story powered by a fierce anger at the utter failure of the American dream, and the greatest fears that lurk in every one of us - from the acclaimed author of Absolution.
Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives and societies taking place all over America.
Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his dream. Julia and Nathaniel arrive from Boston with their son, Copley, and buy up Paul's signature home in a foreclosure sale. They move into the half-finished subdivision and settle in to their brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface of this land, and simmers deep within Nathaniel. The great trees bear witness, Louise lives on in her beleaguered farmhouse, and as reality shifts, and the edges of what is right and wrong blur and are lost, Copley becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them.
Título : Fallen Land
EAN : 9780857898807
Editorial : Atlantic Books
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