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Chargement... L'outsider (2018)par Stephen King
  
Books Read in 2018 (18) Finished in 2020 (1) » 13 plus Books Read in 2020 (2,241) Books Read in 2019 (1,852) Litsy Awards 2018 (12) Best Horror Books (212) Books Read (18) ScaredyKIT 2018 (10) To Read (541) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Ce roman mi-policier mi-fantastique est un roman dans la même veine que ceux de la trilogie Bill Hodges. L'outsider confronte en effet un groupe mixte de policiers et non-policiers avec un tueur malsain. La traque est assez classique, mis à part le côté fantastique qui met un peu de sel et permet de mettre en scène dans la seconde moitié du roman le retour de Holly Gibney, la sympathique enquêteuse présente dans la trilogie Bill Hodge. Cette deuxième partie vient d'ailleurs compenser l'aridité de la première qui se veut être un compte-rendu exhaustif du travail de l'enquêteur Ralph Anderson. Au final, ce roman est une oeuvre plutôt mineure de l'auteur, réussie mais loin d'être exceptionnelle. (  ) Patangel | May 13, 2019 | 
At nearly 600 pages, “The Outsider” isn’t exactly a streamlined thriller. Yet, it doesn’t feel bloated or self-indulgent. Anderson, Maitland and the supporting cast are so deftly drawn, their predicaments so fraught with menace, that the momentum of the narrative builds steadily and keeps the pages turning. In the background is the Outsider, a stranger in town, orchestrating tragedies seemingly on a whim. King cleverly keeps him at a distance for most of the book, letting his menace build by increments. By the time Anderson’s search for the truth leads to an abandoned mine in the desert, readers are unlikely to be able to put “The Outsider” aside for even a moment....Ultimately, “The Outsider” is about belief, the conscious choice to acknowledge that the universe is a stranger place than most people think it is. The Outsider is a wily opponent, who can survive because few are able to recognize him for what he is. They fail to protect themselves from his very real malice and destructiveness. What would it feel like to be so perfectly, completely implicated in the worst crime to ever befall a small town, and have perfectly, completely exonerating evidence you weren’t there? That’s the biggest question King explores in “The Outsider” as small-town cops and prosecutors are asked to believe the impossible — and find the impossible as well. Mob mentality, pedophilia, horrific violence — King never shies away from tough topics. As with most of King’s work, “The Outsider” is at its heart an exploration of good and evil; except this time, skepticism blurs the lines between the two. Terry Maitland is by all accounts a solid family man, a beloved Little League coach, and, quite suddenly, the main suspect in the horrific mutilation and murder of a young boy. The physical evidence and eyewitness testimony against him are incontrovertible, though completely at odds with his reputation as a husband and father who for years has been a pillar of his insular Flint City, Okla., community....No book is perfect, but Stephen King is reliably closer than most. He has always excelled at writing about real people tested by unreal situations, whether it’s told in the unbroken narrative of Dolores Claiborne or via the mental lockboxes of Doctor Sleep. With “The Outsider,” if you can accept that a contemporary man in his late 40s recalls quoting “Our Gang” with his kid brother instead of the Fonz or even Pee-wee Herman, you’re in for one hell of a ride. More than 50 novels published, and he’s still adding new influences to his work. I can think of a great many literary writers who are far lazier about their range of inspirations and interests. This expansiveness allows King to highlight the idea that whether we’re talking about Mexico or Maine, Oklahoma or Texas, people the world over tell certain stories for reasons that feel much the same: to understand the mysteries of our universe, the improbable and inexplicable.... Here’s to mutant rats in the basement and Mexican myths; here’s to the strange and to Stephen King. Still inspiring. There’s plenty of shadowy, wormy supernatural goings-on in Stephen King’s new novel The Outsider. Yet the most unsettling stuff — that which will leave you uncomfortable when you sit and devour this first-rate read — probes the monstrous side of human nature....How does a place deal when the very best of them does the very worst thing imaginable? How does that man’s family and the family of the deceased boy go on living? And what of the cops who are faced with what seems like an impossible situation? The author plumbs to the gloomy depths with his cast before letting off the gas and giving them — and the reader — some needed hope....In King’s hands, real darkness is just as pervasive as the supernatural. Appartient à la sérieHolly Gibney (4)
Le corps martyrisé d'un garçon de onze ans est retrouvé dans le parc de Flint City. Témoins et empreintes digitales désignent aussitôt le coupable : Terry Maitland, l'un des habitants les plus respectés de la ville, entraîneur de l'équipe locale de baseball, professeur d'anglais, marié et père de deux fillettes. Et les résultats des analyses ADN ne laissent aucune place au doute. Pourtant, malgré l'évidence, Terry Maitland affirme qu'il est innocent. Et si c'était vrai ?À travers cette enquête impossible, Stephen King explore le mal contemporain et universel. Cécile Mury, Télérama.Un suspense insoutenable. Ça se dévore. Renaud Baronian, Le Parisien.Ce nouveau roman est une touche supplémentaire au portrait de l'Amérique que King dessine depuis presque soixante livres. Franck Thilliez, Le Monde.Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Jean Esch. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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