Shannon Burke Livres

Retour aux sources pour cette expédition de trappeurs, dans la tradition des grands romans d'aventure à l'américaine. En 1820, aux Amériques, le commerce des fourrures est un moyen périlleux de faire fortune. A peine le jeune William Wyeth s'est-il engagé auprès de la compagnie de trappeurs la plus téméraire de l'Etat qu'il manque de se faire tuer. Il découvre alors la force des liens entre les hommes, dont la survie ne dépend que de leur solidarité. Chasse au bison, nuits passées à dormir sur des peaux de bête, confrontations aux forces de la nature ou aux tribus indiennes, la vie de trappeur est rude, mais William a soif d'aventures. Il a quitté sa famille pour le grand Ouest, sauvage et indompté. Il devra réunir plus de courage et d'habileté qu'il ait jamais cru avoir pour en sortir vivant.

From the acclaimed author of Black Flies and Into the Savage Country and co-creator of top-ten Netflix hit Outer Banks, a powerful new novel of class striving and the precarious dynamics of brotherhood in the Chicago suburbs of the late 1970s. In our family, there was none of this crap about everyone being a winner, says Willie, the narrator, who looks back on his teen years--and his nearly mortal combat with his domineering older brother, Coyle. In the Brennan house four kids sleep in a single room, and are indoctrinated into The Methods, a system of achievement and relentless striving, laced with a potent, sometimes violent version of sibling rivalry. The family is overseen by a raging bull of a father, a South Side tough guy who knocks them sideways when they don't perform well or follow his dictates. Rivals, enemies, and allies, the siblings contend with one another and their wealthy self-satisfied peers at New Trier, the famous upscale high school where the family has struggled to send them. Evoking their crucible of class struggle and peer pressures, Burke balances comedy, tragedy, and a fascinating cast of characters, delivering a book that reads like an instant classic--an unforgettable story of the intertwining of love and family violence, and of triumphant teen survival that echoes down through the years.

After failing to get into medical school, Ollie Cross takes a job as a paramedic in Harlem. Ashamed of his middle-class roots and eager to fit in, he adopts a tough-guy persona which carries him through the dark days on the streets- the shoot-outs, the bad cops, the unhinged medics and hopeless patients.