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2024-05-10 21:46:55
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A cruel and clairvoyant young girl sows the most horrible crimes in the “new” novel by the American author.
In June 2009, the 36th episode of his series “the forgotten authors” published in the British newspaper The Independant was dedicated to Michael McDowell (1950-1999); in France, the writer broke through for good in 2022. The wheel turns, all the faster the more you push it a little. The publisher Monsieur Toussaint Louverture, who is infatuated with the American, brings us out of the dust, at a steady pace and with massive promotion, McDowells in embossed and shimmering pocket format. The McDowell of spring, following the six volumes of the bayou saga Blackwater in 2022 (more than a million copies sold) and the Golden Needles (fall 2023), climbed into the best sellers. With Katie, published in 1980, we move up to the horror level. Those that will follow, announced by the publisher, will be equally terrifying: Cold moon over Babylon in 2024, the Amulet et the Elementals in 2025. In the meantime, make way for Katie.
Who is Katie?
We meet her from the murky and supernatural prologue. We are on the eve of Christmas, a time fond of apparitions, frequent in McDowell’s imagination (he scripted The strange Christmas of Mr. Jack by Tim Burton following Beetlejuic
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