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Badlands
Du Miami des trafiquants de drogue aux bas-fonds new-yorkais, Badlands nous entraîne, au fil des rencontres de son auteur avec les plus grands écrivains contemporains du roman noir d'outre-Atlantique, dans une équipée aux quatre points cardinaux du rêve américain. En prise directe avec la réalité de l'Amérique, sa violence, son désespoir, mais aussi ses gens ordinaires, son passé, sa culture et ses lieux, les auteurs de romans noirs poussent les portes interdites, nous font découvrir leurs univers et leurs décors, terrifiants ou poétiques. Ainsi défilent le Los Angelès révolu de James Ellroy, le pays navajo ancestral de Tony Hillerman, le Montana plein de santé de James Crumley, la Floride pleine d'argent sale d'Elmore Leonard. A travers ce kaléidoscope, John Williams construit un journal de voyage singulier, incisif, entre la radiographie urbaine et l'étude de moeurs, rencontre des hommes remarquables, et les suit au coeur de cette terre de tous les rêves et de tous les dangers.
304 pages, Paperback
Published March 14, 1994
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About the author
John Williams
17 books13 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
John L. Williams was born, lives and works in his hometown of Cardiff. He writes novels, short stories and screenplays set in a Cardiff that is changing fast. Williams celebrates the lives lived beneath the radar, the hustlers and grifters, hookers and guitar players, drug dealers and shoplifters, looking to make a crust or catch a break, looking for love. They are crime novels turned inside out. The police tried (unsuccessfully) to ban his Bloody Valentine (Harper Collins, 1994).
John has also published a number of non-fiction titles including his biographies of Black Power leader Michael X and Shirley Bassey. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday and the Independent and is co-organiser of the Laugharne Festival. John has also worked for the NME and The Sunday Times, and has been a contributing editor of GQ magazine.
Selected Publications:
Non–fiction:
Into the Badlands (Paladin, 1991)
Bloody Valentine (HarperCollins, 1994)
Michael X: A Life in Black and White (Century, 2008)
Miss Shirley Bassey (Quercus, 2010)
Fiction:
Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub (Bloomsbury, 1999)
Cardiff Dead (Bloomsbury, 2000)
The Prince of Wales (Bloomsbury 2003)
Temperance Town (Bloomsbury, 2004)
The Cardiff Trilogy (Bloomsbury, 2006)
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John L. Williams was born, lives and works in his hometown of Cardiff. He writes novels, short stories and screenplays set in a Cardiff that is changing fast. Williams celebrates the lives lived beneath the radar, the hustlers and grifters, hookers and guitar players, drug dealers and shoplifters, looking to make a crust or catch a break, looking for love. They are crime novels turned inside out. The police tried (unsuccessfully) to ban his Bloody Valentine (Harper Collins, 1994).
John has also published a number of non-fiction titles including his biographies of Black Power leader Michael X and Shirley Bassey. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday and the Independent and is co-organiser of the Laugharne Festival. John has also worked for the NME and The Sunday Times, and has been a contributing editor of GQ magazine.
Selected Publications:
Non–fiction:
Into the Badlands (Paladin, 1991)
Bloody Valentine (HarperCollins, 1994)
Michael X: A Life in Black and White (Century, 2008)
Miss Shirley Bassey (Quercus, 2010)
Fiction:
Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub (Bloomsbury, 1999)
Cardiff Dead (Bloomsbury, 2000)
The Prince of Wales (Bloomsbury 2003)
Temperance Town (Bloomsbury, 2004)
The Cardiff Trilogy (Bloomsbury, 2006)
[http://www.literaturewales.org/writer...]
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