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Les dynamiteurs
2020
First Published
3.87
Average Rating
388
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1895. Le vice règne en maître à Denver, minée par la pauvreté et la violence. Sam et Cora, deux jeunes orphelins, s’occupent d’une bande d’enfants abandonnés et défendent farouchement leur “foyer” – une usine désaffectée – face aux clochards des alentours. Lors d’une de leurs attaques, un colosse défiguré apporte une aide inespérée aux enfants, au prix de graves blessures que Cora soigne de son mieux. Muet, l’homme-monstre ne communique que par des mots griffonnés sur un carnet. Sam, le seul qui sache lire, se rapproche de lui et se trouve ainsi embarqué dans le monde licencieux des bas-fonds. Expéditions punitives, lynchages et explosions précipitent l’adolescent dans l’univers honni des adultes, qui le fascine et le repousse à la fois. Au point de modifier sa nature profonde, et de l’éloigner insidieusement de Cora. Les Dynamiteurs est empli d’une tendresse inconditionnelle envers les laissés-pour- compte. Ce roman intense raconte la fin brutale de l’enfance dynamitée par la corruption du monde des adultes.

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Benjamin Whitmer
Benjamin Whitmer
Author · 5 books

Benjamin Whitmer was born in 1972 and raised on back-to-the-land communes and counterculture enclaves ranging from Southern Ohio to Upstate New York. One of his earliest and happiest memories is of standing by the side of a country road with his mother, hitchhiking to parts unknown. Since then, he has been a factory grunt, a vacuum salesman, a convalescent, a high-school dropout, a semi-truck loader, an activist, a kitchen-table gunsmith, a squatter, a college professor, a dishwasher, a technical writer, and a petty thief. He has also published fiction and non-fiction in a number of magazines, anthologies, and essay collections. Pike is his first novel. He lives with his two children in Colorado, where he spends most of his free time trolling local histories and haunting the bookshops, blues bars, and firing ranges of ungentrified Denver. Right now, he’s probably sitting with a book in hand, staring out his window and dreaming of a tar paper shack somewhere in the Rockies, about fifty miles removed from his nearest neighbor.

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