EAN: 9780063259652

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A haunting unforgettable novel of obsession pride and forgiveness exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances from the acclaimed writer of The Removed Milton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota a talented Cherokee artist ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention center in the late 1980s. Until Matthew escaped that is. A novel within a novel we read here Milton’s dark sometimes comic and possibly unreliable account of the story of their childhood even as years later he remains jealous of Matthew’s extraordinary abilities and unlikely success. Milton reveals secrets about their friendship their families and their nightmarish surreal experience of imprisonment. In revisiting the past he explores the echoing traumas of incarceration and pride. Filled with Brandon Hobson’s swirling yet visceral writing and punctuated with original artwork   The Devil Is a Southpaw  is an ambitious elegant and propulsive novel in the spirit of Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez. 

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