La escritura de Nickolas Butler profundiza en las complejidades de la naturaleza humana, explorando a menudo personajes que lidian con dilemas morales y buscan sentido en sus vidas. Su estilo se caracteriza por una honestidad cruda y una aguda perspicacia sobre la vida rural y las relaciones interpersonales. Butler elabora sus narrativas con imágenes evocadoras y temas profundamente resonantes. Su obra ofrece a los lectores un examen cautivador y a menudo conmovedor de la condición humana.
Verano de 1962. Nelson, un chico de trece aǫs, es el corneta de un campamento de boy scouts. Sus medallas, su habilidad para encender el fuego y el celo con el que desempeą sus tareas no son la mejor manera de ganarse amigos. Solo Jonathan, el chico ms̀ popular del campamento, le presta un poco de atencin̤: es el n︢ico que se acuerda de su cumpleaǫs y el n︢ico que lo defiende de los abusones
Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and five-year-old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come home. But, while away, she became deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is convinced Isaac has the spiritual ability to heal the sick. Reckoning with his own faith - or lack thereof - Lyle soon finds himself torn between his unease about the church and the growing threat it poses to keeping his daughter and grandson in his life. Set over the course of one year and beautifully evoking the change of seasons, Little Faith is a powerful and deeply affecting novel about family and community, the ways in which belief is both formed and shaken, and the lengths we go to protect our own.
Young couples gather to participate in an annual 'chainsaw party', cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter. A group of men spend a weekend in the wilderness where they grew up, and where some still find themselves trapped. An ageing environmentalist takes out his frustration and anger on a singular, unsuspecting target. A woman helps another get revenge against a man whose crime extends to an entire community. In these ten stories, Nickolas Butler demonstrates his talent for portraying a place and its people with unparalleled tenderness, evoking an American landscape that will be instantly recognizable to readers enchanted by his debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs.
Henry, Lee, Kip and Ronny grew up together in rural Wisconsin. Friends since childhood, their lives all began the same way, but have since taken different paths. Henry stayed on the family farm and married his first love, whilst the others left in search of something more. Ronnie became a rodeo star, Kip made his fortune in the city, and musician Lee found fame - but heartbreak, too. Now all four are back in town for a wedding, each of them hoping to recapture their old closeness but unable to escape how much has changed. Amid the happiness of reunion and celebration, old rivalries resurface and a wife's secret threatens to tear both a marriage and a friendship apart . . . This is a novel about the things that matter - love and loyalty, the power of music and the beauty of nature - told in a uniquely beautiful, warm-hearted and profound way and exploring the age-old question of whether we can ever truly come home.
From the award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, a dazzling collection of stories sure to surprise readers as often as it moves them . . .
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Impressively original." --The New York Times "Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the open lonely American heartland...A must-read." --People "The kind of book that restores your faith in humanity." --Toronto Star Welcome to Little Wing. It's a place like hundreds of others, but for four boyhood friends--all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town--it is home. One of them never left, still working the family farm, but the others felt the need to move on. One trades commodities, another took to the rodeo circuit. One of them hit it big as a rock star. And then there's Beth, a woman who has meant something special in each of their lives. When all of them are brought together for a wedding, Little Wing seems even smaller than before. Lifelong bonds remain strong, but there are stresses--among the friends, between husbands and wives. There will be heartbreak, but there will also be hope, healing, even heroism as these memorable people learn the true meaning of friendship and love. Nickolas Butler's Shotgun Lovesongs is that rare work of fiction that evokes a specific time and place, yet movingly describes the universal human condition. It is, in short, a truly remarkable book--a novel that, once read, will never be forgotten.
'My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is.'Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best friends since childhood.
Nickolas Butler erzählt in seinen Geschichten von einer Welt, die rauh, kalt und gefährlich ist, aber auch ein Sehnsuchtsort der großen Liebe und Freundschaften. Im Heartland der USA gibt es nicht viele Menschen, aber die haben es in sich. Sie bringen ihre Kettensäge zur Party mit und stellen ihre Liebe beim Tauchgang unter einer meterdicken Eisdecke auf die Probe. Eine demente Polizistin in Rente lässt illegale Hundekämpfe auffliegen und aus einem Ölmagnaten und seinem Entführer, der ihn aus Rache zwingt Rohöl zu trinken, werden vielleicht doch noch Freunde.