Reviews

Bloodbrothers by Richard Price

kevinsmokler's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

lknano's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

jimmypat's review against another edition

1.0

Didn't like it. Price wrote it when he was young and it feels like it. Too much garbage in this novel and I just didn't want to spend time with these scumbags.

markfeltskog's review against another edition

A superb, heartfelt novel about coming of age and the development in oneself of simple human decency. Richard Price really is, as my pal Jerry perceptively put it, incapable of writing a dull sentence. Very highly recommended.

rdebner's review against another edition

3.0

Richard Price has had a talent for dialogue since the very beginning of his writing career. His skill makes his characters leap off the page.

seanm's review

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

julian12's review

5.0

Richard Price’s Bloodbrothers captures the urban vernacular of working class Americans in the Bronx. Out of all the earthy sometimes sordid goings-on there seems to emerge some miracle of feeling and heart that takes you right inside their troubles but doesnt blind you to the prejudices and hard edges that make up their world. It is never sentimental. Once again I sense a curious disjunction between the America I see so often in politics and the media and the this marvellous vision of the American writers. It seems a world away from Trump or Evangelical America or the gun worshipping NRA or sickly sentimental movies and all that fakery. I guess I will never fathom the contradictions of America