Sin reproches

by Daniel Woodrell, Ana Crespo Bordes (translator)

Una caja fuerte abierta de par en par sin los cuarenta y siete mil dólares que el temido Manduca Pumphrey guardaba en su interior. Esa es la deprimente estampa que el viejo John X. Shade contempla desde la barra del Enoch’s Ribs and Lounge. Su joven mujer se ha largado con el dinero del gánster, dejándolo a cargo de su hija Etta, y John X. no quiere estar presente cuando el Manduca lo descubra. Sin un centavo y con las manos demasiado temblorosas como para sostener el taco de billar con el que se ganaba la vida, John X. decide emprender el camino de regreso a Saint Bruno, la pantanosa ciudad donde veinte años atrás abandonó a su primera mujer y a sus tres hijos.

Publicada originalmente en 1992, Sin reproches es la última entrega de la Trilogía de los pantanos protagonizada por la familia Shade.

238 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2023

About the author

Growing up in Missouri, seventy miles downriver from Hannibal, Mark Twain was handed to me early on, first or second grade, and captivated me for years, and forever, I reckon. Robert Louis Stevenson had his seasons with me just before my teens and I love him yet. There are too many others to mention, I suppose, but feel compelled to bring up Hemingway, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, John McGahern, Knut Hamsun, Faulkner, George Mackay Brown, Tillie Olsen, W.S. Merwin, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Andrew Hudgins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Wolco.

Daniel Woodrell was born and now lives in the Missouri Ozarks. He left school and enlisted in the Marines the week he turned seventeen, received his bachelor's degree at age twenty-seven, graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and spent a year on a Michener Fellowship. His five most recent novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and Tomato Red won the PEN West award for the novel in 1999. Winter's Bone is his eighth novel.