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Chargement... The Oxygen Manpar Steve Yarbrough
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In this powerful and gritty first novel, Steve Yarbrough takes us into the deep-South world of Ned Rose, who works nights checking the oxygen levels in fish-farm ponds and does all the dirty work his wealthy boss requires. He silently shares the family home with his sister Daze, who is nearly blinded by bitterness, obsessed with her mother's reputation as a loose, lustful woman. Since his angry teenage years as a scholarship student at a posh, segregated school, Ned's life has been marred by a violence that erupts loudly and quickly disappears, leaving him filled with secrets and regret. When one last hope for deliverance emerges, however, both brother and sister are forced to come to terms with their heritage. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The Oxygen Man is an unsettling story which gets down and dirty right from the start. It's neither a pleasant book nor one for the lighthearted. There's a strange uneasiness about it. You'll hope for the best as your read, all the while expecting the worst. The very real characters are not people you'd like to know. But the author, in a surprisingly good first novel, gets you deeply involved in their feelings of scorn. If you like the creepy characters in Pete Dexter's The Paper Boy, Ruth Hamilton's The Book of Ruth, or James Dickey's Deliverance, you'll like this book. The chapters are very short and interesting. It's a book that's very easy to read in short spurts, pick up and put down at any time, and the appeal is always there. ( )