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Dogfight, A Love Story (2010)

by Matt Burgess(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0385532989 (ISBN13: 9780385532983)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: Another nice surprise from the library shelves (although it might be 3.5). It is love story Queens style with a low level drug dealer as the protagonist who is trying to organize a dogfight for his brother's prison homecoming. There is so much tension throughout the book and the characters are great. It is just a story about some kids from Queens so even when they win they are still stuck- the end is this perfect mix of happy and heartbreaking.
review 2: Picked this up because Burgess is the highest-profile grad of the program I'm attending in the fall, and was pleasantly surprised by just how good it is. Cracking dialogue, a plot that is simultaneously surprising and, somehow, inevitable, with a Dickensian array of fully-imagined characters. It also takes as i... morets background New York's least-celebrated borough -- Queens -- and makes it feel both instantly recognizable and, at times, frighteningly foreign. Equal parts crime novel and coming-of-age story. less

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