As Bad As It Gets
Book in English, written by Damien Leschevin de Prevoisin, 150 pages.
This novel in three movements draws an epic landscape of Emberpit, a shameless anti-utopic bandit town that shelters the worst kind of individuals and crime life.
In the undergrounds of Emberpit, a rumour says the daughter of a doctor was kidnapped, and the revengeful father is on a killing spree to get her back. Christopher Pontius, homeless, destitute, after losing his dog, is about to commit suicide when in a curious turn of events, holds a son-of-a-rich hostage. July M. a mysteriously important girl is dying of an aggressive cancer. Ben Cromwell, a marginal unable to make the difference between good and evil, is warned by transvestite prostitute Vanessa that he has been associated to the girl’s disappearance and that her father is looking for him. Marvin McCoy and his adopted son Mohammed, heads of one of Emberpit’s most notorious crime family, are working to take over the mayor’s seat in order bring back some order in the chaotic and deadly city.
The author reinvents the oppressing atmosphere of the black novel with a grating, disturbing humour.
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