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Lädt ... In the Cagevon Kevin Hardcastle
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"Daniel is one of the most feared cage fighters in Mixed Martial Arts, closing in on greatness until an injury ruins his career. Forced back to his rural hometown, career derailed, he slips into the criminal underworld, moonlighting as muscle for a mid-level gangster he has known since childhood. Battling a cycle of rural poverty, Daniel and his wife Sarah struggle to secure a better life for their daughter, but in this violent and unpredictable world of back-country criminals and county cops, Daniel sparks a conflict that can only be settled in blood. Written in spare, muscular prose, In the Cage penetrates the heart of what it means to endure life in the underclass, revealing the small joys found there."-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Hardcastle is a fine writer. He’s got a distinctive style of sentence fragments and wistfulness, half Hemingway, half Cormac McCarthy. His earlier short stories gave plenty of evidence that if he ever turned his hand to the longer form, he would undoubtedly craft something memorable. And this he has done. It’s not a world I fully recognize other than as a reflection of violent films or through McCarthy’s even more gruesome fiction, but it just might be real. As real as any other fictional world. I certainly believed it. Even though the writing loses something, I think, when it moves from the short form to the long form that seems to demand a roundedness, a completion than can more easily be set aside by Hardcastle in his short stories.
It is a solid debut novel and Kevin Hardcastle will undoubtedly be one to watch in future.
Recommended. ( )