Nitro Mountain: A novel

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Nitro Mountain: A novel

An astonishing, even shocking debut written with both humor and heart by, as John Casey puts it, â€œa natural-born writer who inhabits every one of his charactersâ€”the good, the bad, and those who swing back and forth.â€

Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, Nitro Mountain follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime and music. Thereâ€™s Leon, a hapless bass player who can embroil himself in trouble just by getting out of bed in the morning. And his would-be girlfriend, Jennifer, whoâ€™s living with Arnett, the townâ€™s most dangerous thugâ€”and hoping Leon will help her poison him. And thereâ€™s Arnett himself, a psychopath for the agesâ€”albeit so charming and deranged, so strikingly authentic, that he arrests the readerâ€™s attention at first sight and holds it fast. His mirror image, a singer-songwriter named Jones, has his own moral issues, though at least heâ€™s trying to be a good man. The bright if battered soul who pulls us through this story is Jennifer, a vulnerable yet strong woman struggling heroically to survive the endemic hopelessness and violence that have surrounded her since birth.

Relentless? Yes, of course, but never remotely gratuitous. Every single moment is shot through with the pain and misery that inspire so much of the music these people love more than life itself.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-05-17
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781101946367

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-05-17
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781101946367

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