"The basis for the classic movie starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Novels that inspired great films"--Cover.
Davis Grubb Libros
23 de julio de 1919 – 24 de julio de 1980
Grubb crea relatos oscuros que se inspiran en la observación de las dificultades económicas y sociales dentro de la sociedad estadounidense. Sus obras a menudo exploran la psicología de personajes que lidian con amenazas externas y demonios internos. Aunque su carrera artística visual se vio truncada por el daltonismo, Grubb integró elementos dibujados en su escritura a través de bocetos. Su novela más aclamada se convirtió en un clásico tanto en forma literaria como cinematográfica, y su estilo distintivo sigue resonando.
"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.
