Brotherly Love by Pete Dexter

Brotherly Love by Pete Dexter

In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter's father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward a small South Philly gym. Peter's cousin Michael--his brother--moves in another direction: into small-time intimidation and the trappings of a union prince. Neither, however, can outrun the logic of violence as they're dragged into a world of bad blood and a chilling cycle of betrayal and retribution.

Praise for>Brotherly Love

A first-rate novel and a masterly evocation of that undercivilized and unfree America . . . The grace and confidence of Pete Dexter's] prose conveys absolute authenticity.--The New York Times Book Review

Enviably artful work--carefully wrought, canny in its insights, sly in its presentation, sneaky in its revelations.--Chicago Tribune

Extraordinarily poignant . . . Brotherly Love is all bulletproof prose and flinty-eyed bravissimo. . . . But the quieter, sadder aspects of the novel are its strongest points.--The Boston Globe

Tautly and often exquisitely written.--Los Angeles Times

In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter's father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward a small South Philly gym. Peter's cousin Michael--his brother--moves in another direction: into small-time intimidation and the trappings of a union prince. Neither, however, can outrun the logic of violence as they're dragged into a world of bad blood and a chilling cycle of betrayal and retribution.

Praise for>Brotherly Love

A first-rate novel and a masterly evocation of that undercivilized and unfree America . . . The grace and confidence of Pete Dexter's] prose conveys absolute authenticity.--The New York Times Book Review

Enviably artful work--carefully wrought, canny in its insights, sly in its presentation, sneaky in its revelations.--Chicago Tribune

Extraordinarily poignant . . . Brotherly Love is all bulletproof prose and flinty-eyed bravissimo. . . . But the quieter, sadder aspects of the novel are its strongest points.--The Boston Globe

Tautly and often exquisitely written.--Los Angeles Times

Pete Dexter started his career as a U.S. Marine. In New Orleans, Louisiana, there is a post office. He quit mail because he wasn't very good at it, then got a job as a newspaper reporter in Florida, which he was not very good at, got married, and was not very good at it either. He became a newspaper columnist in Philadelphia, which he was quite good at, and he divorced, which you'd have to say he was quite good at because it only cost $300. Dexter remarried, won the National Book Award, and constructed a mansion in the desert so far away from civilization that no mail is delivered. He works at the post office six months a year, living proof of the proverb What goes around comes around--that is, you quit the post office, pal, and the post office quits you.

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ISBN 13	9780812987348
ISBN 10	0812987349
Title	Brotherly Love
Author	Pete Dexter
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2014-11-04
Number of pages	288
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