Bloodroot
by Loehfelm, Bill
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - VeryGood/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1410423433
- ISBN 13
- 9781410423436
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About This Item
"Kevin Curran is a history instructor at a Staten Island college more or less stuck in a rut in life. His mother's developing Alzheimer's and his own growing professional burnout don't make anything easier. One day, he reunites with his brother Danny, a heroin user who had dropped out of sight several years earlier. Now clean, Danny would like to try to make amends with Kevin and their parents. But Kevin learns that "clean" doesn't necessarily mean Danny is living his life on the right side of the law, and is drawn into his brother's borderline activities, as well as several that cross that border.
Looming around the caper into which Danny enlists Kevin is the abandoned Bloodroot Children's Hospital, loosely based on the Willowbrook State School closed by authorities in 1987. Bloodroot is choppy and unfocused, kind of like listening to a song you like on a car radio at the edge of a station's range, when the signal "picket fences," or drops in and out very quickly. Kevin is alternately paralyzingly wistful, stupidly macho, street-savvy or clueless, depending on what the situation calls for. Other characters yo-yo similarly and don't maintain distinct personae long enough to establish themselves, and the ending relies on a series of coincidences that thrust minor characters into suddenly major roles with little or no warning or buildup. Maybe Bloodroot suffers from a sophomore slump, but it's definitely a step down from Fresh Kills." Goodreads 3.38.
Synopsis
Born in Brooklyn and raised on Staten Island, Bill Loehfelm moved to New Orleans in 1997 where he's taught high school and college, managed a pizza joint and an antique shop, and tended bar in the Quarter and the Warehouse District. Winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, his work has also appeared in the anthologies Year Zero and Life in the Wake .
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10494
- Title
- Bloodroot
- Author
- Loehfelm, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_pictorial boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - VeryGood
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Large Print Ed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1410423433
- ISBN 13
- 9781410423436
- Publisher
- Gale Cengage Learning
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
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