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44th out of 517 books
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113 voters
Sons of the Rapture
by
Todd Dills (Goodreads Author),
Dills Todd
Billy Jones and his dad have a score to settle. Up in Chicago, Billy drowns his past in booze. In South Carolina, his father saddles up for a drive to reclaim him. Caught in this perfect storm is a ragged assortment of savants: shape-shifting doctor, despairingly bisexual bombshell, tiara-crowned trumpeter, zombie senator.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by Featherproof Books
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READ. THIS. BOOK. Good grief. It's incredible. In parts Todd rivals Pynchon for audacity and madness, yet the organization and pace of the story are controlled, symphonic, clear. I'm not kidding. I'm going to need for you to read it and report back to me.
This isn't a ploy to help a nice guy sell copies, either -- drop me a line if you're flat broke, and I'll send you mine. I want you to read this book.
This isn't a ploy to help a nice guy sell copies, either -- drop me a line if you're flat broke, and I'll send you mine. I want you to read this book.
Told from various points of view—each unique, beautiful and strange—with his debut novel Dills has tapped into a zeitgeist unique to America. He explores the surly restlessness of youth, the repressed anger of a still-divided country, and the confused joy of perpetual drunkenness. Fans of Barry Hannah and Walter Kirn will recognize a similar investigation of America's jagged psychology.
"TOP 5 LOCAL BOOKS OF 2006"
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"Sons of the Rapture is a gloriously ambitious achievement."...more
"TOP 5 LOCAL BOOKS OF 2006"
- Newcity | full article
"Sons of the Rapture is a gloriously ambitious achievement."...more
Expect this book to generate considerable attention. What does it mean? Todd Dills successfully balances past and present cultural and political influences with a far-reaching historical account of how roots and realities are much more complicated than they seem.
Involved in shaping the future, Dills probes deeply into how the forces of all that matter very easily quest for very little. Ripping society apart, Dills compellingly examines the emergence of this quest for true democracy. Dills' rigo...more
Involved in shaping the future, Dills probes deeply into how the forces of all that matter very easily quest for very little. Ripping society apart, Dills compellingly examines the emergence of this quest for true democracy. Dills' rigo...more
Mar 30, 2010
Brent
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I read all of Part 1 which is over half but less than two-thirds.
I'm so confused. Why did this get published? How did it make it into my public library system? It's so bad. If the point of this book is to immortalize the Two-Way Lounge (an actual real-life dive bar close to where I live) in literature, then at least this novel has some reason to exist.
That being said, one of the characters is named Artichoke Heart (or A.H. for short) and my favorite part of the whole thing is when Artichoke Hear...more
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Cate
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I had to force myself to finish this book.
It's so disjointed that it was hard to really become invested in it.
The second half of the book was much more enjoyable than the first half, to me.
It's so disjointed that it was hard to really become invested in it.
The second half of the book was much more enjoyable than the first half, to me.
First novel by Dills, editor of THE2NDHAND (http://the2ndhand.com); fine, fine work of new Southern fiction. The music of it. Dills deftly uses Southern idiom without turning it into a series of palatable cliches for Yankees. And the humor is great. Et tu, hipster?
Yes yes yes! I like it. Read it.
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Todd Dills is the author of a novel (Sons of the Rapture, Featherproof 2006) and editor and founder of Chicago- and Birmingham-based new-lit broadsheet and online mag THE2NDHAND (http://www.the2ndhand.com). He lives in Nashville, Tenn., where he also works as senior editor for a couple of trucking trade mags. He finished an M.F.A. at Columbia College in Chicago in 2003. He misses Chicago, sort of....more
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