Donnybrook, Frank Bill
Donnybrook, Frank Bill
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Donnybrook

Author: Frank Bill

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/05/2013


Synopsis

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.

About Frank Bill

Frank Bill is the author of the novel Donnybrook and the story collection Crimes in Southern Indiana, which was named one of GQ magazine’s favorite books of 2011 and a Daily Beast best debut of 2011.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper

You say you’d like to spend a weekend getting drunk out in the countryside while watching a bunch of rednecks beat each other bloody with their bare hands? I’ve got just the place. Toss a cooler loaded with beer into the back of your El Camino, do a bump of that crank you scored off that stripper ba......more

Goodreads review by Trudi

Holy shit snacks, people. This book is intense!!! I need a moment to compose myself. But there will be a review. I was already familiar with Frank Bill's writing after surviving a close encounter with his debut -- the short story collection Crimes In Southern Indiana. Upon finishing those stories, m......more

Go ahead and toss this one onto the pile of yet another solid entry into what is quickly becoming one of my favorite genres - Hick Lit. I’ll be damned if it don’t pack one hell of a punch (pun intended). This book is intense, brutal, ultra-violent, and just relentless. And, I can’t believe I’m sayin......more

Goodreads review by Greg

"I don't make threats. I offer moments to reconcile one's shitty choices." Fuck, this is a violent book. I think I described reading the Flannery O'Connor book last week as being like getting punched in the face, and then kicked in the stomach, and blah blah blah repeating different places you can ge......more