Death Don't Have No Mercy William Boyle 9781940885193 Books
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Eight stories about broken men making bad decisions.
"William Boyle does for the small damaged towns of New York what Nelson Algren did for Chicago he makes the streets sing with piss-pot poetry and gut-bucket blues. These are edgy stories about people who would have to pull themselves up to walk the line, people who spend so much time in bars, drunks and bartenders start to look like family. In here, hardship is a given, failure too, but Boyle's beautiful prose infuses his characters with a deep sense of knowledge and dignity and awareness, so hope is always present, no matter how dim the light. In DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY, a shot of whiskey is rocket fuel, and the songs are all sung by dead folks and outlaws. Drunk working men look like dumptrucks, their mouths hanging open for booze. Boyle is a new breed of literary crime writer that knows to be alive is to be a criminal and the art of living is finding the best possible crime. Fans of James Cain and Vicki Hendricks, of Charles Bukowski and Larry Brown, saddle up to the bar and throw down your money for the excellent stories in DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY. I guarantee you will fall in love with the neighborhoods, with the alleys, with the garages and one-bedroom apartments, because around the corner William Boyle is bartending and everything he has to say is the best thing you will read this year. An outstanding collection!" -Dave Newman, author of PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ANYONE TONIGHT, RAYMOND CARVER WILL NOT RAISE OUR CHILDREN, THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE POEMS, and TWO SMALL BIRDS
Death Don't Have No Mercy William Boyle 9781940885193 Books
Why do bad things happen to people? Dark, strange, story-lines lead you through a labyrinth in Boyle's mind. The characters are all so well developed that you will continue to think about them long after you finish each story. He creates worlds for these characters to live in that you will love and will re-visit. Albeit a world full of people receiving the wages of sin. Stick this book in your back pocket, head to the nearest hole in the wall, and chase it with whiskey. Damn good book.Product details
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Death Don't Have No Mercy William Boyle 9781940885193 Books Reviews
I have read some great books this year. This one is right at the top. Boyle has this uncanny ability to drag you in to each story with minimal effort. All his characters are flawed in some way, but you cannot help but root for them. I loved every short here, particularly the last one, which was heartbreaking. Brilliant writing, brilliant book. Buy it. 5 stars
Outstanding book of stories. I blew through this one in two sittings because every story was better than be last. I just finished reading Richard Lange's Sweet Nothing and if you like that book I highly recommend Death Don't Have No Mercy. It's almost like an east coast companion read. Here Comes The Bells is definitely one of the best stories I have read this year, it will likely be a contender in my favorite story suggestions for a long time to come as well. I am a fan of Boyle's for sure now. I he has more books coming out soon! What can I say about Broken River Books that I haven't already said. Greatness.
A marvelous collection of eight stories about men who drink too much, have damaged souls, and whose lives, for all purposes, may already be over. None of the main characters is all that old - we're talking about men in their twenties and early thirties - but already they've made a lot of bad choices and continue to make bad choices. Still, you'll be hard-pressed to encounter more entertaining, compelling fiction about sad people than the fiction you'll find here. Boyle has a style of elegant simplicity that makes for compulsive reading, and his way of evoking place, Brooklyn around Coney Island, upstate New York, a hotel room in Montreal, is impeccable. Environment almost is a separate character in these stories. I could have read eight more of these beautifully told tales and look forward to what William Boyle will do next.
William Boyle's "Gravesend" was my favorite book of 2014. Two years after reading it, it's still resonating. Boyle wrote this collection of stories over a rather long period, and you can see many of the same themes. His characters inhabit the fringes, and psychically too, they are always on the edge of something. Boyle's gifts for description are tremendous, and if you're a New York City/State dweller, you'll enjoy his atmosphere even more. The tone is often sad -- and the doings here can be very strange and sordid -- but there's humor too. The Nelson Algren comparison is valid, but at times (especially with the nicknames) I found myself thinking of William Kennedy too.
It'll be a pleasure to see Boyle's next book
I'm glad to have read that book, because it helped me figure out what is so endearing about William Boyle's writing. I find a lot of the pleasures I had reading Raymond Carver. His imaginary is broken and timeless like Carver's and Boyle is fascinated with the lives of drifting people who can't afford to dream anymore. My favorite story was the closing piece HERE COME THE BELLS that could've been a Marlon Brando movie, but I loved most of what I've read in there DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY, POOR BOX and POUGHKEEPSIE struck me as standing out, but most of the material is golden.
I'm convinced William Boyle is the next big thing in American Letters. I'm not sure crime REALLY is his thing though. I would read a thousand page novel of just him writing about his neighborhood.
Chance meeting, I don't believe in them anymore. I will never walk past a guy from the neighborhood and not wonder what lies beneath. Boyle pulls back the curtain and the old haunts are never the same.
Really captures NYC working class people. Characters come to life. I highly recommend this book of short stories.
Why do bad things happen to people? Dark, strange, story-lines lead you through a labyrinth in Boyle's mind. The characters are all so well developed that you will continue to think about them long after you finish each story. He creates worlds for these characters to live in that you will love and will re-visit. Albeit a world full of people receiving the wages of sin. Stick this book in your back pocket, head to the nearest hole in the wall, and chase it with whiskey. Damn good book.
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