“Un roman noir bouleversant, violent et tragique. Un magistral coup de poing. Dans la cage, le premier roman de Kevin Hardcastle, salué par John Irving et Donald Ray Pollock, est à retrouver dans le nouveau numéro de Rolling Stone ★★★1/2!
“A black novel upsetting, violent and tragic. A masterful punch.”
– Rolling Stone Magazine (Fr) – Phillipe Blanchet
“Un premier roman tout en cruauté et humanité. Kevin Hardcastle s’impose comme un écrivain des nerfs usés et de la chair abîmée, un pugiliste doublé d’un styliste et un peintre flamboyant du prolétariat rural.”
“A first novel all in cruelty and humanity. Kevin Hardcastle imposes itself as a writer of worn nerves and damaged flesh, a pugilist doubled from a stylist and a flamboyant painter of the rural proletariat.”
– Le Monde (Fr) – Macha Séry
“Un premier roman tout en subtilité, captivant et vraiment touchant. Une belle découverte.”
“A first novel all in subtlety, captivating and really touching. A beautiful discovery.”
– La Librairie Forum Besançon
“Blood and blows: this first black, bitter and sometimes sensual novel by Canadian Kevin Hardcastle offers us two magnificent portraits: one of a man who knows he is lost but continues to fight until the end; the other of his wife who tries to save him. Magistral.”
– Page des libraries – Madeline Roth, Librairie L’Eau Vive – Avignon
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