Duck Alley

by Jim DeFilippi

Overview

Publishers Weekly said this book is "excellently paced, imaginatively told." The great novelist George V. Higgins (THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE) blurbed it as "a wonderful book." The murder of a high school girl tests the lifelong friendship of two Long Island buddies.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011886621
Publisher:	Brown Fedora Books, The Permanent Press
Publication date:	10/19/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	250 KB

About the Author

Jim DeFilippi is the author of numerous crime novels that Newsday has called “suspenseful, often hilarious.” Publishers Weekly has written, “This wacky tale finger-pops its way to a perfect ending,” and The Cleveland Plain Dealer said, “A terrific tale… a superbly crafted novel.” Jim grew up in Duck Alley, on Long Island, and has been living and writing on a dirt road in northern Vermont for thirty odd years.

Editorial Reviews

“DeFilippi creates a surprisingly fresh novel, a meditation on communication and on silence…full of texture. The Long Island setting is evoked vividly but with admirable restraint. A sleeper that could find its natural audience among fiction devotees.”

National Booklist

“Recalling the happy summertime of youth in the ‘50s, summons Coke bottles, friendly drunks, fussy moms, baseball games on the radio and harmless pranks.”

Kirkus Review

“A terrific tale… a superbly crafted novel.”

Cleveland Plain Dealer

“The story is excellently paced and imaginatively told, in a series of flashbacks, imaginary scenarios and straightforward narrative sections, all enlivened with vernacular dialogue. DeFilippi’s novel is as much about emotions as it is about actions, and it delivers a jolt of a surprise ending that entirely fits the plot’s milieu.”

Publishers Weekly