At the time of the Paris Book Festival, back in a new formula, from April 22 to 24, 2022, meeting with the two leaders of the event, followed by a great interview with Dominique Bordes, founder of the house of independent edition “Monsieur Toussaint Louverture” which publishes in six volumes and in serial form the American saga unpublished in France: “Blackwater” by Michael McDowell.
The new program of Paris Book Festival with its artistic director Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos and its general manager Jean-Baptiste Passé at the microphone of Muriel Maalouf.
Translation from English (United States) by Yoko Lacour with the participation of Hélène Charrier. Cover illustration by Pedro Oyarbide.
“Easter 1919, as the threatening waves of Perdido submerged this small town in northern Alabama, a clan of wealthy landowners, the Caskeys, had to deal with damage to their sawmills, the loss of their lumber and the incalculable damage caused by the relentless flooding of the Blackwater River.
Led by Mary-Love, the powerful matriarch of a thousand tricks, and by Oscar, her devoted son, the Caskeys are about to get up again… but that’s without counting the arrival, as sudden as it is mysterious, of a seductive stranger. , Elinor Dammert, a young woman with a troubled past, whose only intention seems to be to want to conquer her place among the Caskeys.
Beyond manipulations and twists, love and hate, Michael McDowell (1950-1999), co-creator of the mythical Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, and author of around thirty books, succeeds with Blackwater in building a saga in six novels as addictive as a Netflix series, bathed in a unique and fascinating atmosphere worthy of Stephen King.
Discover the first episode of Blackwater, a matriarchal saga with a touch of the supernatural and a hint of horror. (Presentation of editions Mr. Toussaint Louverture)
Unpublished to date in French, Blackwater appears episodically in order to respect the original intention of its author. Blackwater I: April 7. Blackwater II: April 22. Blackwater III: May 5. Blackwater IV: May 19. Blackwater V: June 3. Blackwater VI: June 17.