βAnd Their Children After Themβ Review: A Delinquent Crime Echoes Through the Years In an Overblown Youth Melodrama
31 August 2024 at 14:05
French writer Nicolas Mathieu won the Prix Goncourt β Franceβs highest-profile literary award β for his 2018 novel βAnd Their Children After Them,β a working-class Bildungsroman set against a backdrop of severe deindustrialization, for which he stated his disparate influences to include John Steinbeck, Γmile Zola, Bruce Springsteen and the 2012 Jeff Nichols film βMud.β [β¦]