Details
Synopsis
Nicky Battaglia, son of a Mafia hitman who sang on the witness stand, is at the center of this tale of the New York streets. Told from a number of different points of view, "Bless Me, Father" is the gritty tale of a Mafia family.
| Size | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Paddy Blood runs through the layers of tape and gauze with surgical scissors, splitting the rings with a single, surly, slash."
Industry Reviews
"The situations and characters reek with the flavor and odors of the streets. Scenes--especially those involving the mafiosi--are quite compelling....The texture of the present-tense voice is coarse, yet the rhythm and meter of the prose sometimes approaches the poetic....For a first novel, this is a remarkable piece of work."
San Antonio Express-News - Phil Greco (06/11/1995)
"Here is a fresh new voice in American writing, enriched by the street, full of laughter and a sense of tragedy. His eye is sharp, his ear acute; more important, his characters live and breathe. This is a wonderful debut."
Pete Hamill
"Mark Kriegel's years on the gritty streets of New York pay off handsomely from the opening page of 'Bless Me, Father', where he launches us into a brutally tough world, seen through the eyes of a sensitive protagonist. This is a terrific first novel."
Vincent Patrick
"To call this a novel of the streets is to demean it. As down and dirty in its rotgut prose as it may be, its evocation of the soul of a place and of souls imbued by place approaches, in its way, the somber magic of Joyce's 'Dubliners'."
Nick Tosches
"A solid premiere. There are moments in this book, about boxing, about the nature of masculine fear, that are quite unlike anything I've ever read or seen or heard."
Book Jacket - Richard Price
|
)
)
)
)
)
)
All rights reserved.
