Author: Nic Pizzolatto
- Fiction
- Ediciones Salamandra
- ISBN: 9788416237005
- Release Date: 01-14-2015
Synopsis
From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series True Detective, comes a dark and visceral literary debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston.
On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Known “without affection” to members of the boss’s crew as “Big Country” on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots, Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Which it is. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, which is to say that after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas—an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. The girl’s name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy—and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston’s country-western bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes. Any chance that they will find safety there is soon lost. Rocky is a girl with quite a story to tell, one that will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come.Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller is impossible to put down. Constructed with maximum tension and haunting aftereffect, written in darkly beautiful prose, Galveston announces the arrival of a major new literary talent.
La obra de Pizzolatto ofrece el tono, la atmósfera angustiante y las temáticas oscuras que caracterizan al megafilme. La premisa de es tan sencilla como contundente: Roy, un asesino a sueldo, se ha enterado de que padece cáncer. Su jefe le ha tendido una trampa mortal y mientras intenta huir cruza camino con una joven prostituta que cambiará el sentido de su vida. Pizzolatto también es autor de la colección de relatos Between Here and the Yellow Sea (2014), que apareció a principios de año en Estados Unidos. “Ghost–Birds” y el relato que le da título a la colección fueron publicados originalmente en The Atlantic, pueden leerse aquí y acá.
