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Nell'afosa estate texana del 1958, il tredicenne Stanley Mitchell lavora nel drive-in del padre, e mette il naso in un segreto che doveva rimanere celato. E la "perdita dell'innocenza" di Stanley, in quell'estate in cui il mondo per lui cambia per sempre, coincide con il miracolo di una resurrezione davvero magica. In perfetta naturalezza, Lansdale ricrea le voci, il sapore, la vita, di un tempo scomparso del tutto, come non fosse mai esistito. La "sottile linea scura", che segna per Stanley la scoperta del male del dolore e della morte insieme con l'esplosione del sesso e la consapevolezza del conflitto razziale, diventa la parete trasparente da varcare per immergerci in quegli anni Cinquanta lontani ormai come la preistoria.
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A Fine Dark Line
2003, Grand Central Publishing
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0759598533 9780759598539
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It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like molasses... For thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of the mysterious long-ago demise of two very different young women. In his quest to unravel the truth about their tragic fates, Stanley finds a protector in Buster Lighthorse Smith, a black, retired Indian-reservation cop and a sage on the finer points of Sherlock Holmes, the blues, and life's faded dreams. But not every buried thing stays dead. And on one terrifying night of rushing creek water and thundering rain, an arcane, murderous force will rise from the past to threaten the boy in a harrowing rite of passage... Vintage Lansdale, A Fine Dark Line brims with exquisite suspense, powerful characterizations, and the vibrant evocation of a lost time.
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