Beneath the Bonfire

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Nickolas Butler (Allentown, Pennsilvània, 1979) es va criar a Eau Claire, Wisconsin, i va estudiar a la Universitat de Wisconsin-Madison i al Taller dx{0026} x02019;Escriptors dx{0026} x02019;Iowa. Els seus textos han aparegut en diverses publicacions com The New York Times Review, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares i The Progressive. La seva primera novel-la, Shotgun lovesongs (2014), li va valdre un èxit notable de crítica i públic i la productora Fox Searchlight va adquirir-ne els drets per dur-la al cinema. També és autor de les novel-les Al cor dels homes (Empúries, 2017; nominada al Premi Médicis Estranger) i Little faith (2019), així com del recull de contes Beneath the bonfire (2015). Bona sort és la segona novel-la de Nickolas Butler que es publica en català.