"The basis for the classic movie starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Novels that inspired great films"--Cover.
Davis Grubb Boeken
23 juli 1919 – 24 juli 1980
Grubb creëert duistere verhalen die voortkomen uit observaties van economische en sociale ontberingen binnen de Amerikaanse samenleving. Zijn werken verkennen vaak de psychologie van personages die worstelen met externe bedreigingen en innerlijke demonen. Hoewel zijn carrière als beeldend kunstenaar werd belemmerd door kleurenblindheid, integreerde Grubb getekende elementen in zijn schrijven via schetsen. Zijn meest gevierde roman werd een klassieker in zowel literaire als filmvorm, en zijn kenmerkende stijl blijft resoneren.
"Convicted murderer Mattie Appleyard has just served forty-seven years in Glory Penitentiary. His release puts him in possession of a check for $25,452.32 - the result of his having salted away his meager earnings in the Prisoner's Work-and-Hope Savings Plan of the local bank. With his friends Johnny Jesus and Lee Cottrill, he plans to open a general store that will compete with the company store in Stonecoal, West Virginia.". "Unfortunately, banker Homer Grindstaff, prison guard Uncle Doc Council, and Sheriff Duane Ewing have no intention of allowing Mattie to realize his ambitions. Mattie's efforts to cash his check set a deadly pursuit in motion and introduce the reader to a host of colorful characters and a vividly recreated regional and historical background. Good and evil meet head-on in this novel that is, by turns, warm and humorous, rousing and tumultuous."--BOOK JACKET.
