{"product_id":"crimes-in-southern-indiana-stories-9780374532888","title":"Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 Ozarks\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eC\u003ci\u003erimes in Southern Indiana \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBill'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 \u003ci\u003eCrimes in Southern Indiana \u003c\/i\u003eunfolds, we witness the unspeakable, yet are compelled to find sympathy for the depraved. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBill'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Bill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.06w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374532888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011 pg. 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMen's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2011 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Bill\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eDonnybrook\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eCrimes in Southern Indiana\u003c\/i\u003e, one of \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e's favorite books of 2011 and a \u003ci\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e best debut of 2011. He lives and writes in Southern Indiana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44945258479731,"sku":"9780374532888","price":24.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_2ec3ff59-413a-4e6e-9e16-9d8b999a5d4c.jpg?v=1778342473","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/crimes-in-southern-indiana-stories-9780374532888","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}