Sure the comparisons to Richard Price are inevitable, but Bill Beverly's debut novel "Dodgers" signals the arrival of a unique voice on the literary scene. When you imagine all the possible outcomes for a coming of age, gangster, road trip novel, you're more likely to expect a mess rather than a first rate novel/5(). Bill Beverly’s Dodgers is one of those novels: a coming-of-age narrative that navigates contemporary urban and rural landscapes with the same mythic gravitas that Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy brought to the mid-century American Southwest. After a drug raid throws their underground organization into chaos, the young protagonist, East, is sent with his volatile half-brother and two other young men to . Bill Beverly is a conjurer, a poet of the dark arts, and his novel is a spell: when he sends his young drug-world protagonist on a deadly errand in the alien landscape east of L.A.—that fat swath of America known to him only by its names and its shapes on maps—it is you who makes the journey, who is the stranger in a strange land, a watcher who now feels the eyes of others wherever you go, and who must pay the /5().
"Bill Beverly's gritty and propulsive debut novel, Dodgers, is more than a riveting read; it is a stunning literary achievement. Our hero, East, a fifteen-year old hit man, drives across America on a deadly mission, from the mean streets of LA to the heart of the heart of the country. Book Review: Dodgers by Bill Beverly. Octo Octo ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages) After reading Annie's review of Dodgers last year, I've been meaning to read it; I finally acquired a copy from the library. This was a very welcomed and refreshing read! Book Description. Dodgers Quotes Showing of "Flight, they called it. One part fear, one part the blindest excitement you'd ever known. It freed you from time, from who you were or the matter of what you'd done.". ― Bill Beverly, Dodgers. 1 likes.
Written in stark and unforgettable prose and featuring an array of surprising and memorable characters rendered with empathy and wit, Dodgers heralds the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction. Winner of the LA TIMES Book Prize of for Best Mystery/Thriller. Ap. DODGERS. By Bill Beverly. pp. Crown Publishers. $ Bill Beverly’s debut novel is a caper of sorts. The crew consists of East, the “good son” of a troubled single mom. Preview — Dodgers by Bill Beverly. Dodgers Quotes Showing of “Flight, they called it. One part fear, one part the blindest excitement you’d ever known. It freed you from time, from who you were or the matter of what you’d done.”. ― Bill Beverly, Dodgers.
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