"The basis for the classic movie starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Novels that inspired great films"--Cover.
Davis Grubb Knihy
23. júl 1919 – 24. júl 1980
Grubb tvorí temné príbehy, ktoré čerpajú z pozorovaní ekonomickej a sociálnej biedy americkej spoločnosti. Jeho diela často skúmajú psychológiu postáv, ktoré sa potýkajú s vonkajšími hrozbami a vnútornými démonmi. Hoci jeho umelecká kariéra nebola možná kvôli farbosleposti, Grubb integroval vizuálne prvky do svojho písania prostredníctvom kresieb a skíc. Jeho najslávnejšie dielo sa stalo klasikou tak v literárnej, ako aj filmovej podobe, a jeho štýl zostáva vplyvný.
"Convicted murderer Mattie Appleyard has just served forty-seven years in Glory Penitentiary. His release puts him in possession of a check for $25,452.32 - the result of his having salted away his meager earnings in the Prisoner's Work-and-Hope Savings Plan of the local bank. With his friends Johnny Jesus and Lee Cottrill, he plans to open a general store that will compete with the company store in Stonecoal, West Virginia.". "Unfortunately, banker Homer Grindstaff, prison guard Uncle Doc Council, and Sheriff Duane Ewing have no intention of allowing Mattie to realize his ambitions. Mattie's efforts to cash his check set a deadly pursuit in motion and introduce the reader to a host of colorful characters and a vividly recreated regional and historical background. Good and evil meet head-on in this novel that is, by turns, warm and humorous, rousing and tumultuous."--BOOK JACKET.
