Moon Lake

by Joe R. Lansdale, Luca Briasco (Translator)

Overview

Un grande romanzo sulla scoperta del male e la fine di ogni illusione. Un capolavoro che merita un posto accanto a libri indimenticabili come In fondo alla palude e La sottile linea scura.

«La luna è alta. L'acqua è alta. Anime oscure vagano sulla terra e piangono. È una vecchia poesia. Ora so cosa significa», sono le ultime parole che Daniel Russell sente pronunciare a suo padre, in una notte del 1968, poco prima di lanciarsi con la macchina nel Moon Lake. Dieci anni dopo, quando l'auto e i resti del padre vengono recuperati, scopre qualcosa di scioccante, destinato a scuotere la sua vita e quella dell'intera cittadina in cui vive, fino a toccarne il nucleo piú marcio. Per tutto quel tempo la verità era rimasta nascosta sotto lo scintillio della luna. Ma adesso è giunto il momento per Daniel di dare un senso al proprio dolore.

«Davanti a noi scintillano allegri tutti i tratti caratteristici del migliore Lansdale: il suo umorismo, l'originalità, l'inaspettato, i personaggi secondari indimenticabili e il suo Texas portentoso».
Francesca Pellas, «tuttolibri - La Stampa»

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788858438756
Publisher:	EINAUDI
Publication date:	03/22/2022
Sold by:	GIULIO EINAUDI EDITORE - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	678 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of nearly four dozen novels, including Rusty Puppy, the Edgar-award winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, and Leather Maiden. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Editorial Reviews

04/26/2021

This thought-provoking crime novel from Edgar winner Lansdale (More Better Deals) opens in 1968 in the East Texas town of Long Lincoln, where Daniel Russell, a 13-year-old white boy, survives drowning after his father intentionally drives them into Moon Lake. Orphaned, Daniel is left in the care of a local African American family, the Candles, before spending the remainder of his teenage years with his mercurial aunt in another town. Ten years later, Daniel gets a call from Long Lincoln’s sheriff: his father’s car has been found with a suspicious pile of bones in the trunk. Daniel returns to claim the remains and inadvertently gets entangled in the murky history of Moon Lake, Long Lincoln’s elders, and the economic plight of the racially divided town. He teams up with Ronnie Candles, now a police officer, to investigate the discovery of even more bodies while rekindling their teenage affair from a decade before. As usual with this author, the Texas dialect is pitch-perfect, though some explanatory dialogue can be a bit didactic. Lansdale effectively dramatizes racial and economic conflict in this searing gothic tale. Agent: Danny Baror, Baror International. (June)

Publishers Weekly

Lansdale nails the storyline, nails the suspense, seriously nails the dialogue and has created yet another character worthy of a series.”—BookPage

"Daniel... is a winning mixture of curiosity, hesitancy, and gumption."—Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review

Praise for More Better Deals

"When funky books need to be written, Joe R. Lansdale writes them. . . . The plot is pure James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, but steeped in hillbilly noir."—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

"The prolific Mr. Lansdale…draws on the spirit and themes of James M. Cain in this stand-alone book, which works clever variations on such Cain classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.
 —Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

"Lansdale really makes this used car purr."—Booklist (starred review)

"Highly enjoyable . . . Populated with an admirable array of laughable miscreants, this droll, savage novel is vintage Lansdale. The author's storytelling powers remain as strong as ever."—Publishers Weekly

" [A] down-and-dirty riff on Double Indemnity, a provocative new variation on James M. Cain’s noir classic...an enjoyably cynical cruise down the back roads to perdition."—Lisa Henricksson, Airmail

"He's genre dextrous, moving fleetly between westerns, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, literary fiction, and nonfiction, and doing it all extremely well."—Publishers Weekly

"Southern crime legend Joe Lansdale channels his best James M. Cain world vision...Readers can expect to be transported in the usual Lansdale fashion, as nobody does those East Texas period details quite like Lansdale, who always delivers with a finely-crafted, engaging, compulsive crime story in his home terrain."—Dwyer Murphy, CrimeReads

From the Publisher

Brace yourself for this horrific Southern gothic narrated by Jason Culp in a rich Texas twang. Daniel Russell was 13 when his father drove them off a bridge into Moon Lake. Nearly 10 years later, Daniel returns when the car is pulled from the lake and a grisly discovery changes everything he knew about his hometown. Culp's accent and characterization bring Daniel to life with an earnestness that both complements and contrasts with the heavy use of scatological similes in the darkly humorous writing. His portrayals of supporting characters are equally vibrant. He expertly spins this yarn, giving appropriate weight to the themes of racism and greed, capped off with a gruesome conspiracy that will keep listeners up at night. S.T.C. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2021 - AudioFile

Brace yourself for this horrific Southern gothic narrated by Jason Culp in a rich Texas twang. Daniel Russell was 13 when his father drove them off a bridge into Moon Lake. Nearly 10 years later, Daniel returns when the car is pulled from the lake and a grisly discovery changes everything he knew about his hometown. Culp's accent and characterization bring Daniel to life with an earnestness that both complements and contrasts with the heavy use of scatological similes in the darkly humorous writing. His portrayals of supporting characters are equally vibrant. He expertly spins this yarn, giving appropriate weight to the themes of racism and greed, capped off with a gruesome conspiracy that will keep listeners up at night. S.T.C. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2021 - AudioFile