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Portrait of Donald Ray Pollock Photo: Raphael Gaillarde/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images (2012)

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Pollock, Donald Ray

The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called Knockemstiff in southern Ohio, there was – when Pollock was a child – a gravel road, some shops and about 400 inhabitants, most of them related to each other. When he was 17 years old, he dropped out of high school and got a job at a meat-packing factory in the neighbouring town of Chi...

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Jonathan Wide

Gender: Male

Jonathan Wide has his roots in Småland, southern Sweden, and has been a detective with the Gothenburg police. He leaves his job, however, and becomes a private detective. In the background, there is a difficult divorce which has meant that he misses his children and drinks too much. Wide still has contact with his former colleagues, especially Sten Ard, with whom he cooperates in a couple of ...

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