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Heavy Sugar - by  William Boyle (Hardcover) - 1 of 1

Heavy Sugar - by William Boyle (Hardcover)

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  • The latest from the "poet laureate of Brooklyn" is a zany, foul-mouthed, and tender-hearted screwball noir about a stolen baseball and the lengths people will go to find it.
  • About the Author: William Boyle is the author of nine critically acclaimed books set in the southern Brooklyn neighborhood where he was born and raised.
  • 288 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Thrillers

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The latest from the "poet laureate of Brooklyn" is a zany, foul-mouthed, and tender-hearted screwball noir about a stolen baseball and the lengths people will go to find it. And themselves.

Thanksgiving Eve, 1991: Most things that lovable scoundrel Georgie Quinlan has tried to do in his life have gone horribly wrong: Marriage. Fatherhood. Most recently, an armed robbery. It's the latter thing that has Georgie on the lam and back in Gravesend, Brooklyn, the sleepy Italian American enclave where he hasn't shown his face in a decade. He's stolen a Joe DiMaggio-signed baseball from the old Irish pub, hoping it's worth a penny, and hoping that southern Brooklyn is the last place anyone will look for him. This, Georgie is wrong about too.

Awaiting Georgie in Gravesend are his wife, Loretta, whom he hasn't seen in twelve years, and his teenage kid, Roz, who knows nothing about her father--he's been MIA for most of her life. But Roz is about to get a crash course in Georgie Quinlan. So is everyone, whether they want one or not.

Unfolding over one frenzied day, William Boyle's latest Brooklyn-set noir is a humorous, no-holds-barred exploration of buried desires and long-simmering resentments, a pulse-pounding, unpredictable bash from a singular voice in crime fiction.



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Praise for William Boyle

"Boyle's characters evoke the working-class romantics of Bruce Springsteen, small-time and scrambling for money, love, or answers."
--Oprah Daily

"Boyle is able to do what today's best crime fiction writers do so well--tell a captivating, page-turning thriller, but one defined by its characters and the choices they make, rather than the circumstances into which they have been thrust."
--The Washington Post

"No one can make the everyday vagaries of life feel like Greek tragedies the way William Boyle can. He effortlessly maps the path of desire that moves through the human heart like burning chrome."
--S. A. Cosby



About the Author



William Boyle is the author of nine critically acclaimed books set in the southern Brooklyn neighborhood where he was born and raised. His previous novel, Saint of the Narrows Street, was featured on NPR's Books We Love and was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.25 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W)
Weight: 1.25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Thrillers
Publisher: Soho Crime
Theme: Crime
Format: Hardcover
Author: William Boyle
Language: English
Street Date: January 5, 2027
TCIN: 1010973396
UPC: 9781641298513
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-6592
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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