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Whenever I travel I try to pick up a book by a local author or at least set in the location as a little 'souvenir.' Here's this year's New Orleans trip purchase from the cute little bookstore close to where we stay. #NOLA #gardendistrict 📚��🌺

Tom Cooper zeichnet mit "Das zerstörte Leben des Wes Trench" ein düsteres Bild von vielen individuellen Katastrophen, die zu teils verhängnisvollen Verstrickungen führen.
Die vollständige Rezension: https://buecherherbst.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/rezension-tom-cooper-das-zerstoer...

Making displays for work again.

So well written, with nothing superfluous and no show-boating. Hard to believe it's a first novel. Interesting characters who were all a bit twisted. But very much a novel about men - the women were all either peripheral or only relevant because of their absence.

I gave it 77 pages, enough to know this isn't the book for me. Can't spend my free time reading about men who are this messed up.

This is the second book in as many weeks that involves drug smuggling on boats. If I believed in signs, there might be cause to worry.

The grim realism of Cooper's narrative is cut with the humor typical of the Southern grotesque, so while some of the individual storylines seem pretty heavy, the story isn't necessarily depressing.

This book hooked me from the first page. The characters are all well developed, and I love the sense of place from the author's descriptions of the settings. I hated for this one to end.