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Welcome to Heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept the white on the picket fences have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling.

A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill's southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy's eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell's Missouri OzarksCrimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in recent years. Frank Bill delivers what is both a wake-up call and a gut punch. Welcome to heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept the white on the picket fences have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Bill's people are pressed to the brink-and beyond. There is Scoot McCutchen, whose beloved wife falls terminally ill, leaving him with nothing to live for-which doesn't quite explain why he brutally murders her and her doctor and flees, or why, after years of running, he decides to turn himself in. In the title story, a man who has devolved from breeding hounds for hunting to training them for dog-fighting crosses paths with a Salvadoran gangbanger tasked with taking over the rural drug trade, but who mostly wants to grow old in peace. As Crimes in Southern Indiana unfolds, we witness the unspeakable, yet are compelled to find sympathy for the depraved. Bill's southern Indiana is haunted with the deep, authentic sense of place that recalls the best of Southern fiction, but the interconnected stories bristle with the urban energy of a Chuck Palahniuk or a latter-day Nelson Algren and rush with the slam-bang plotting of pulp-noir crime writing à la Jim Thompson. Bill's prose is gritty yet literary, shocking, and impossible to put down. A dark evocation of the survivalist spirit of the working class, this is a brilliant debut by an important new voice.

Donnybrook er en tredagers kampturnering langt ute på bondelandet sør i Indiana. Publikum er dopa på alt som er tilgjengelig, og folk legger inn sine veddemål på hvem som vil komme seirende ut av kampen. Jarhead er en desperat ung mann som vil gjøre alt for å klare å fø sine barn. Han er den beste slåsskjempen i hele Kentucky og er overbevist om at en billett til denne kampen er løsningen på alle hans problemer. Chainsaw Angus er på sin side ikke så interessert i å ta imot flere slag. Derfor har han startet produksjon av metamfetamin sammen med søsteren. Det går etter hvert så bra at søsteren vil ha alt for seg selv. Det er ikke heldig for søskenforholdet. Mens vi reiser gjennom diverse bakevjer mot Donnybrook, møter vi et persongalleri som er villig til nærmest hva som helst for å få seg et skudd, sex, dop, penger eller ære. "Donnybrook" er en rå, vill og sprø roman fra dagens white trash Amerika.

Boken inneholder fortellinger fra en hverdag med væpnede narkobander, evige klanfeider og metaamfetamin i den sørlige delen av Indiana.

Twenty fighters unleash hell until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers - drunk and high on whatever's on offer - bet on the outcome. Jarhead is a desperate man who'd do just about anything to feed his children.