Donnybrook A Novel
Donnybrook A Novel by Frank Bill is a gripping tale published by Macmillan on March 5, 2013. This edition, featuring 242 pages, presents a raw narrative centered around a three-day bare-knuckle fighting tournament in southern Indiana. The story follows Jarhead, a desperate fighter from southeastern Kentucky, who believes that one last fight could change his life, while also delving into the lives of other characters entangled in a world of drugs and violence.
Readers will encounter a vivid portrayal of the gritty underbelly of society as they journey through the backwoods to the Donnybrook. The narrative introduces a cast of complex characters, including Chainsaw Angus and his sister Liz, who find themselves embroiled in a dangerous world of meth production and betrayal. With elements of action, adventure, and hard-boiled noir, this novel explores themes of desperation and moral decay, making it a compelling read for those interested in fiction that delves into the darker aspects of human nature.
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The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana
The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament held on a thousand-acre plot out in the sticks of southern Indiana. Twenty fighters. One wire-fence ring. Fight until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers—drunk and high on whatever’s on offer—bet on the fighters.
Jarhead is a desperate man who’d do just about anything to feed his children. He’s also the toughest fighter in southeastern Kentucky, and he’s convinced that his ticket to a better life is one last fight with a cash prize so big it’ll solve all his problems.
Meanwhile, there’s Chainsaw Angus—an undefeated master fighter who isn’t too keen on getting his face punched anymore, so he and his sister, Liz, have started cooking meth. And they get in deep. So deep that Liz wants it all for herself, and she might just be ready to kill her brother for it. One more showdown to take place at the Donnybrook.
As we travel through the backwoods to get to the Donnybrook, we meet a cast of nasty, ruined characters driven to all sorts of evil, all in the name of getting their fix—drugs, violence, sex, money, honor. Donnybrook is exactly the fearless, explosive, amphetamine-fueled journey you’d expect from Frank Bill’s first novel . . . and then some.
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