BROTHERLY LOVE

Name: BROTHERLY LOVE
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Pete Dexter
ISBN: 9780061287336

Author: Pete Dexter

Narrator: Chris Sarandon

Abridged: 2 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/06/2007

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women, Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

In Philadelphia city, 1961, a division of power exists between the Italian mobs and the predominantly Irish labour leaders. When the youngest daughter of union man Charley Flood is accidentally killed by one of the Mafia's cops it is the beginning of a suicidal chain of retaliation.

About Pete Dexter

Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Paris Trout and five other novels: God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy, and Train. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee, and has contributed to many magazines, including Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy. His screenplays include Rush and Mulholland Falls. Dexter was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern South Dakota. He lives on an island off the coast of Washington.Rob Fleder was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and the editor of SI Books during his twenty years at Time Inc. He was the editor of Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary Book, Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book, Sports Illustrated: The Football Book, and Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, among other New York Times bestsellers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on April 15, 2010

The ironically named Brotherly Love is a cold, sparse and terrifying, an unrelenting plunge into a nightmare. There is Dexter’s scalpel sharp dissection of character and black humor along the way, but for the most part this the most relentless Dexter I have found yet. A tale of thirty or so years o......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on February 08, 2015

You know, I think I'm falling in love with Pete Dexter.......more

Goodreads review by Sergio Acera on April 15, 2021

Como dijo un crítico refiriéndose a otra de las novelas de Dexter, "Train": cumbre del género negro.......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlin on January 26, 2014

This is a dark tale of two brothers (cousins, actually) who are born into Philadelphia mob life. One is reticent to participate in the lifestyle; the other relishes it. The story takes place over about 20 years, from the time when the boys are young until they've grown and have pretty much decided w......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on August 29, 2020

I've now read all but one of Pete Dexter's books and have been working backward rather than chronologically. With "Brotherly Love," you see all the hallmarks of later work, but perhaps a little less developed. A good book to be sure, but arguably not the greatness that Dexter achieves later with "Pa......more