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Sons of the Rapture
by Todd Dills (Goodreads author!)

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350076.Sons_of_the_Rapture?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Sons of the Rapture" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173981672m/350076.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350076.Sons_of_the_Rapture?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Sons of the Rapture</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/200816.Todd_Dills">Todd Dills</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10098858?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars 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"
 - Newcity | <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/6067.html">full article</a>
 
 "Sons of the Rapture is a gloriously ambitious achievement."
 -The Elegant Variation | <a target="_blank" href="http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2006/10/guest_review_an.html">full article</a>
 
 "Wildly entertaining, technically astounding and moving to the last."
 - Punk Planet
 
 
 "Part farce and part tribute to the southern culture that raised him."
 - UR Chicago | <a target="_blank" href="http://www.urchicago.com/listingsEntry.asp?ID=464037&PT=cultureshock">full article</a>
 
 "Dills' writing is engaging."
 - Gapers Block | <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gapersblock.com/bookclub/2006/09/06/review_sons_of_the_rapture_by/">full article</a>
 
 "An impressive booze-soaked debut, told from various perspectives with unapologetic frankness and raging fervor."
 - Newcity | <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/5809.html">full article</a>
 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/667419?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>

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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"
- Newcity | full article

"Sons of the Rapture is a gloriously ambitious achievement."
-The Elegant Variation | full article

"Wildly entertaining, technically astounding and moving to the last."
- Punk Planet

"Part farce and part tribute to the southern culture that raised him.&qu...more

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