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Life Sentences by Billy O'Callaghan
Based on stories of the author's family handed down over generations, Life Sentences is a short book but really packs a punch in its 215 pages. ... Vintage via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of Life Sentences by Billy O'Callaghan for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.
Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest
Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world. It earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series "The Wire." Drug deals dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds. Montana Barronette was the leader of the gang "Trained to Go" (or TTG), and when he was finally arrested and sentenced to ...
Review: Mark Bowden writes gripping story of Baltimore gang
In his latest book, "Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader," Bowden offers a ground level view of a different kind of battle in the city nicknamed Bodymore, Murderland, for its pervasive violence. The masterful yarn is a riveting true narrative about an FBI investigation that landed eight criminal ...
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The main character in Laura Lippman's "Life Sentences" is a popular writer named Cassandra Fallows. ... top authors and critics join the Book Review's podcast to talk about the latest news ...
Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
Kindle $11.99. Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from the award winning, "New York Times" bestselling authorA successful memoirist returns home to Baltimore searching for inspiration for her next book. When she discovers an old classmate had been accused of a heinous crime, she decides to braid this tragic story ...
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In LIFE SENTENCES, the woman in question is Calliope Jenkins, who has virtually disappeared from sight since serving that prison time. When Calliope's name is mentioned on the national news in comparison with another case of a mother refusing to testify, it catches the attention of Cassandra Fallows.
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LIFE SENTENCES. A deeply felt and distinctive work by a real craftsman. Irish writer O'Callaghan dissects the trials and survival of a Cork family across several generations. O'Callaghan's previous novel, My Coney Island Baby (2019), looked at two married lovers facing a painful shift in their years of monthly trysts.
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This information about Life Sentences was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.
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Life Sentences: A Novel. Hardcover - March 10, 2009. "From its gripping opening pages…Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year.". —Boston Globe. USA Today calls Laura Lippman, "A writing powerhouse," and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory ...
Summary and reviews of Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
This information about Life Sentences was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.
Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest
"Most of the TTG gang members are now serving life sentences, but as Bowden starkly illustrates, neutralizing one criminal enterprise won't solve the great ongoing tragedy of violence in poor, isolated urban Black communities, nor will it fix the devastation fueled by racist policies from the 19th and 20th centuries."The Washington Post
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Praise for Life Sentences "O'Callaghan has done a brilliant job of capturing the ethos of the Irish setting as we see it through the beautifully created lives of his characters, who are extraordinary, as is this timeless book about them." — Booklist (starred review) "O'Callaghan writes with a bright, enlivening emotional palette and a penetrating eye for the details of family history.
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A writer discovers the power of silence in the latest stand-alone from Lippman ( Hardly Knew Her, 2008, etc.). Author of two successful memoirs and a tepidly received novel, Cassandra Fallows is jolted by a reminder of her classmate, Calliope Jenkins, who served seven years in prison rather than reveal the whereabouts of her infant son.
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Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since 1933. ... who—at the age of 21—received two life sentences for his involvement in at least 20 killings. The author takes a deep dive into Tana's life story in an attempt to determine the circumstances that led such a "goofy, genial ...
Life Sentences
The major indictment in "Life Sentences" is the essay "Kinds of Killing," a long reflection on the Holocaust inspired by Richard J. Evans's history of the Third Reich.
Louise Erdrich's disquieting new novel will keep you on your toes
An absorbing and unquiet novel, The Sentence, like the era we're living through, keeps us readers on the alert for the next improbable turn of events looming ahead of us. Erdrich's story starts in ...
Summary and reviews of Life Sentence by Mark Bowden
This information about Life Sentence was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.
Life Sentence: How My Father Defended Two Murderers and…
52 ratings15 reviews. On December 15, 1974, when Amy Bell was one year old, the city of Moncton, New Brunswick, was consumed with the search for two missing police officers—Corporal Aurèle Bourgeois and Constable Michael O'Leary. They had been abducted by petty criminals Richard Ambrose and James Hutchison after a kidnapping that had ...
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Life Sentence' ... Life Sentence: The Brief and tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader By Mark Bowden 320 pages, Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2023, $20.70.
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Lawrence Hatab's book is a rewriting of a work that first appeared in 1978. Full of interesting insights and connexions, it is written in a style that is engagingly personal, confessional even: we learn, for instance, that the author is a long-term sufferer from 'low grade, functional depression' (p. 112).
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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David ...
Life Sentence by Amy Bell
A nonfiction book about how a father's defense of two murderers ruined his life. On December 15, 1974, when Amy Bell was one year old, the city of Moncton, New Brunswick, was consumed with the ...
Book Review: Joseph Epstein's New Memoir and Book of Essays
The essays are, by and large, as tweedy and self-satisfied as these lines make them sound. There are no wild hairs in them, no sudden deepenings of tone. Nothing is at stake. We are stranded with ...
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Based on stories of the author's family handed down over generations, Life Sentences is a short book but really packs a punch in its 215 pages. ... Vintage via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of Life Sentences by Billy O'Callaghan for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.
Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world. It earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series "The Wire." Drug deals dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds. Montana Barronette was the leader of the gang "Trained to Go" (or TTG), and when he was finally arrested and sentenced to ...
In his latest book, "Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader," Bowden offers a ground level view of a different kind of battle in the city nicknamed Bodymore, Murderland, for its pervasive violence. The masterful yarn is a riveting true narrative about an FBI investigation that landed eight criminal ...
The main character in Laura Lippman's "Life Sentences" is a popular writer named Cassandra Fallows. ... top authors and critics join the Book Review's podcast to talk about the latest news ...
Kindle $11.99. Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from the award winning, "New York Times" bestselling authorA successful memoirist returns home to Baltimore searching for inspiration for her next book. When she discovers an old classmate had been accused of a heinous crime, she decides to braid this tragic story ...
In LIFE SENTENCES, the woman in question is Calliope Jenkins, who has virtually disappeared from sight since serving that prison time. When Calliope's name is mentioned on the national news in comparison with another case of a mother refusing to testify, it catches the attention of Cassandra Fallows.
LIFE SENTENCES. A deeply felt and distinctive work by a real craftsman. Irish writer O'Callaghan dissects the trials and survival of a Cork family across several generations. O'Callaghan's previous novel, My Coney Island Baby (2019), looked at two married lovers facing a painful shift in their years of monthly trysts.
This information about Life Sentences was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.
Life Sentences: A Novel. Hardcover - March 10, 2009. "From its gripping opening pages…Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year.". —Boston Globe. USA Today calls Laura Lippman, "A writing powerhouse," and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory ...
This information about Life Sentences was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.
"Most of the TTG gang members are now serving life sentences, but as Bowden starkly illustrates, neutralizing one criminal enterprise won't solve the great ongoing tragedy of violence in poor, isolated urban Black communities, nor will it fix the devastation fueled by racist policies from the 19th and 20th centuries."The Washington Post
Praise for Life Sentences "O'Callaghan has done a brilliant job of capturing the ethos of the Irish setting as we see it through the beautifully created lives of his characters, who are extraordinary, as is this timeless book about them." — Booklist (starred review) "O'Callaghan writes with a bright, enlivening emotional palette and a penetrating eye for the details of family history.
A writer discovers the power of silence in the latest stand-alone from Lippman ( Hardly Knew Her, 2008, etc.). Author of two successful memoirs and a tepidly received novel, Cassandra Fallows is jolted by a reminder of her classmate, Calliope Jenkins, who served seven years in prison rather than reveal the whereabouts of her infant son.
Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since 1933. ... who—at the age of 21—received two life sentences for his involvement in at least 20 killings. The author takes a deep dive into Tana's life story in an attempt to determine the circumstances that led such a "goofy, genial ...
The major indictment in "Life Sentences" is the essay "Kinds of Killing," a long reflection on the Holocaust inspired by Richard J. Evans's history of the Third Reich.
An absorbing and unquiet novel, The Sentence, like the era we're living through, keeps us readers on the alert for the next improbable turn of events looming ahead of us. Erdrich's story starts in ...
This information about Life Sentence was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.
52 ratings15 reviews. On December 15, 1974, when Amy Bell was one year old, the city of Moncton, New Brunswick, was consumed with the search for two missing police officers—Corporal Aurèle Bourgeois and Constable Michael O'Leary. They had been abducted by petty criminals Richard Ambrose and James Hutchison after a kidnapping that had ...
BOOK REVIEW: 'Life Sentence' ... Life Sentence: The Brief and tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader By Mark Bowden 320 pages, Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2023, $20.70.
Lawrence Hatab's book is a rewriting of a work that first appeared in 1978. Full of interesting insights and connexions, it is written in a style that is engagingly personal, confessional even: we learn, for instance, that the author is a long-term sufferer from 'low grade, functional depression' (p. 112).
It is a fantasy, but the book draws inspiration from the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Rape of Nanking. Crime Fiction Lover reviews Jessica Barry's Freefall, a crime novel: In some crime novels, the wrongdoing hits you between the eyes from page one. With others it's a more subtle process, and that's OK too.
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David ...
A nonfiction book about how a father's defense of two murderers ruined his life. On December 15, 1974, when Amy Bell was one year old, the city of Moncton, New Brunswick, was consumed with the ...
The essays are, by and large, as tweedy and self-satisfied as these lines make them sound. There are no wild hairs in them, no sudden deepenings of tone. Nothing is at stake. We are stranded with ...