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Bottoms, David

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ISBN 10: 0395515289 ISBN 13: 9780395515280

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990

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Two brothers, small time hoods who dream of the big score, kidnap a rich local college student and discover that the mob is muscling in on their easy-money scheme

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About the Author:

David Bottoms holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University and served as Poet Laureate of Georgia for twelve years. His first book, SHOOTING RATS AT THE BIBB COUNTY DUMP, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared widely in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Poetry, and The Paris Review, as well as in sixty anthologies and textbooks. Bottoms is the author of eight books of poems, two novels, and a book of essays and interviews.

From Publishers Weekly:

Poet ( Shooting Rats at the Bibb Country Dump ) and novelist ( Any Cold Jordan ) Bottoms has written a quiet, economical novel about a botched amateur kidnapping in a small Georgia town. Connie Holtzclaw, a failed boxer of limited intelligence, is enlisted by his brother Carl in a plan to kidnap a rich college student and hold him for ransom. They abduct the young man only to find their scheme foiled by a local gangster attempting to collect on one of Carl's bad gambling debts. Both Carl and the gangster have sadistic inclinations that complicate the plot; the scenes of graphic violence are among the most vivid in the book, which otherwise alternates between somewhat platitudinal dialogues and quietly impressive prose passages. Connie's troubled relationship with his brother is sensitively rendered, as are his wistful yearnings for his girlfriend Rita, a waitress at the local Waffle Shop. Using realistic details to convey the monotony of life in a decaying community, Bottoms moves the narrative determinedly but sometimes ploddingly along; yet the conclusion, with its seemingly requisite act of violence, is taut and shocking.
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