Little Altar Boy by John Guzlowski
Crime Fiction Lover's Top Five Books of 2020On a snowy Thursday night in Chicago, there is a knock on Detective Hank Purcell's door. Sister Mary Philomena has seen something terrible at Saint Fidelis Church -- a violation of all she holds sacred.The next Monday, she is found murdered in the convent basement, next to a furnace stuffed with old papers and photographs.And Margaret, Hank's teenage daughter, has disappeared.Hank and his unconventional partner Marvin Bondarowicz try to force their way through a wall of ecclesiastical silence to find the killer, while their search for Margaret takes them from swank lakeside flats to drug dens to south-side basement blues clubs...and the snow keeps falling.After World War II, John Guzlowski was born in a refugee camp in Germany and immigrated to America with his family as a Displaced Person in 1951. During WWII, his parents were Polish slave workers in Nazi Germany. He encountered hardware store clerks with Holocaust tattoos on their wrists, Polish cavalry officers who still lamented their lost horses, and ladies who had trekked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Soviets while growing up in Murdertown, Chicago's rough immigrant communities around Humboldt Park. Guzlowski remembers and appreciates the experiences and final resilience of these mute survivors in much of his work. Guzlowski is a well-known poet, as well as a respected teacher, literary critic, and fiction and nonfiction author.
Echoes of Tattered Tongues, his most recent poetry collection, awarded the 2017 Montaigne Medal of the Eric Hoffer Awards as one of the year's most thought-provoking books. Guzlowski holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as an MA and PhD in English from Purdue University. He lives in Lynchburg, Virginia, and is a Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Eastern Illinois University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781948403153 |
| ISBN 10 | 1948403153 |
| Title | Little Altar Boy |
| Author | John Guzlowski |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kasva Press |
| Year published | 2020-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 322 |
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