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But You Can’t Take the Neighborhood Out of You

Gravesend by William Boyle

October 25, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR13Bingo: White Whale  And so I circle back to the beginning of William Boyle’s catalog, with his new one Shoot the Moonlight Out already in hand. I tried reading Gravesend multiple times over the years. But it didn’t stick. It reminded me of George Pelecanos’ work, which I admire more than enjoy: character-focused neighborhood-centric stories in which crime just randomly happens and people get drawn in because they can’t escape their circumstances. Those books always sound like fun more than they read like it. At […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brooklyn, cbr13bingo, crime, Gravesend, William Boyle

Jake's CBR13 Review No:162 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brooklyn, cbr13bingo, crime, Gravesend, William Boyle ·
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