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South Brooklyn. Not the Brooklyn of Spike Lee or Matty Rich, but acounterpoint: those left behind in the white flight. Mike is 19 and atloose ends: driving for Big Lou's Car Service and trying to decide ifhe should stay in college or drift into the omnipresent arena of localorganized crime. Mike's life is changed forever as he's forced toconfront the grim realities of wiseguy justice and his own culpabilityin its execution. Echoing such urban low-life classics as Price's The Wanderers and Selby's Last Exit, this novel offers an honest, unromantic look at Brooklyn's underclass. Tim McLoughlin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he still resides. He is employed in the King's County Supreme Court. Critical praise for Heart of the Old Country: ''Set in the depths of working-class Brooklyn, this zippy first novel reads like an inspired cross between Richard Price's Bloodbrothersand Ross Macdonald's The Chill-part coming-of-age story,part thriller. Streetwise 19-year-old protagonist Mike spends his daysdriving for a car service and his nights attending college part-time.While trying to figure out which endeavor is more futile, he winds upon the periphery of a murder that wil

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Author

McLoughlin, Tim

Publisher

Akashic Books, Ltd.

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617750496

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, Health & Fitness

Rating

3.75 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13