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About Nic Pizzolatto
Nic Pizzolatto's fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Oxford American, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Best American Mystery Stories and several other publications. His work has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and his story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea was named by Poets & Writer's Magazine as one of the top five fiction debuts of the year. His first novel, Galveston, was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble 2010 Discover Award and the Edgar Award for best first novel; it won the Spur Award, and received the Prix de Premier Roman L'Etranger for best first novel (foreign) from the French Academy.
In 2012 he created a new series for HBO titled 'True Detective', the first season of which will air in January of 2014, with Pizzolatto as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Season 2 aired in summer of 2015.
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On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Known “without affection” to members of the boss’s crew as “Big Country” on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots, Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Which it is. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, which is to say that after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.
Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas—an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. The girl’s name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy—and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston’s country-western bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes. Any chance that they will find safety there is soon lost. Rocky is a girl with quite a story to tell, one that will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come.
Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller is impossible to put down. Constructed with maximum tension and haunting aftereffect, written in darkly beautiful prose, Galveston announces the arrival of a major new literary talent.
Set in a variety of Southern and Midwestern landscapes—from Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka State Park to a crop circle at a Minnesotan farm—the stories in Between Here and the Yellow Sea excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and, sometimes, between their inner and outer selves.
In this both heartbreaking and humorous collection, we meet a base-jumping, samurai park ranger who parachutes off the St. Louis Arch; a stained glass artist who struggles over his masterpiece and learns through great loss what his true subject will be; and a religious elementary school teacher who tries to understand her rebellious, militant son. In the title story, which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, an orphaned young man and his former high school football coach set out to kidnap the coach’s daughter from Los Angeles and bring her back to east Texas.
With an assured, poignant voice, Pizzolatto places us at the crossroads of memory and desire, somewhere between here and the Yellow Sea.
Nic Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans and raised on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. He has published stories in the Atlantic Monthly, the Missouri Review, Shenandoah, the Iowa Review, and other literary journals and was a finalist for the 2004 National Magazine Award in Fiction. He is currently a visiting writer at the University of North Carolina and is at work on his first novel.
Criador da série True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto conjuga sensibilidade e talento narrativo a uma extraordinária voz contemporânea em coletânea surpreendente que explora a ambiguidade do coração humano
Um guarda-florestal salta de um arco de 200 metros de altura. Um artista tenta construir sua obra-prima em um castelo. Uma professora procura o filho desaparecido seguindo rastros de um estêncil manchado de tinta. Um jovem e seu ex-técnico de futebol americano viajam para sequestrar uma garota. Os personagens de Daqui até o Mar Amarelo e outros contos são pessoas comuns, mas a narrativa de suas jornadas nada usuais se aprofunda nas incertezas da existência humana, sem, no entanto, tentar desvendá-la.
Em uma viagem por onze histórias que visitam lugares e realidades às vezes muito distantes, o leitor é apresentado a uma miríade de experiências universais: memória e desejo, saudade e perda, um mergulho na realidade crua dos relacionamentos humanos e nos desafios mais íntimos com os quais todos podemos nos depararem qualquer fase da vida.
Ao unir em suas tramas crueldade, amor, solidão e amizade, Nic Pizzolatto explora os limites tênues entre o bem e o mal, o certo e o errado, enquanto seus personagens tentam transpor os abismos entre eles e os outros, entre o passado e o presente e, às vezes, os abismos ainda maiores que os separam de si mesmos.
No mesmo dia em que é diagnosticado com uma doença terminal, Roy Cady pressente que o chefe, um agiota e dono de bar que é o mandachuva em Nova Orleans, quer vê-lo morto. Conhecido entre os membros da gangue pelo nada afetuoso apelido de Big Country, por causa do cabelo comprido e das botas de caubói, Roy desconfia de que o serviço de rotina para o qual foi enviado possa ser uma emboscada. E de fato é. Mas consegue inverter os papéis e, após um banho de sangue, escapa ileso.
Além de Roy, só há mais uma pessoa viva no local, uma mulher, e num ato impensado ele aponta uma arma para a cabeça dela e a leva consigo na fuga em direção à cidade de Galveston – uma decisão imprudente e sem volta. A mulher, uma prostituta de 18 anos chamada Rocky, é jovem demais, durona demais, sexy demais – e certamente trará para Roy problemas demais.
Alternando passado e presente com fluidez e inteligência, Galveston é um romance brutal e envolvente. Uma narrativa ágil, permeada de diálogos marcantes e construída com o máximo de tensão, prova do inegável talento literário de Nic Pizzolatto.
“Tenso, impregnado com uma forte sensibilidade noir. Uma ótima estreia de Pizzolatto na ficção criminal.”Booklist