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Hold it 'til it hurts: a novel

✍ Scribed by Johnson, Tyrone Geronimo

Publisher: Coffee House Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 260 KB
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Fiction
City: Gulf Coast (La.), Louisiana--Gulf Coast., Minneapolis Minn.
ISBN: 1566893100

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✦ Synopsis

"The magnificence of Hold It 'Til It Hurts is not only in the prose and the story but also in the book's great big beating heart. These complex and compelling characters and the wizardry of Johnson's storytelling will dazzle and move you from first page to last. Novels don't teach us how to live but Hold It 'Til It Hurts will make you hush and wonder."--Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead

"This rich and sophisticated first novel brings together pleasures rarely found in one book: Hold It 'Til It Hurts is a novel about war that goes in search of passionate love, a dreamy thriller, a sprawling mystery, a classical quest for a lost brother in which the shadowy quarry is clearly the seeker's own self, and a meditation on family and racial identity that makes its forerunners in American fiction look innocent by comparison."--Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award winner for Lord of Misrule

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✦ Subjects

Louisiana -- Gulf Coast

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