Easter Weekend - Softcover

David Bottoms

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671733028 ISBN 13: 9780671733025

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 1991

Synopsis

Two brothers, small time hoods who dream of the big score, kidnap a rich local college student and discover that the mob is muscling in on their easy-money scheme

About this title

About the Author:

David Bottoms holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University and served as Poet Laureate of Georgia for twelve years. His first book, SHOOTING RATS AT THE BIBB COUNTY DUMP, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared widely in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Poetry, and The Paris Review, as well as in sixty anthologies and textbooks. Bottoms is the author of eight books of poems, two novels, and a book of essays and interviews.

From Library Journal:

Set in Macon, Georgia, this novel-length character study covers three days in the life of "nice guy" Connie Holtzclaw, small-time prizefighter and would-be dreamer turned kidnapper. Connie and his older brother Carl, the mastermind behind the scheme, kidnap and hold a rich college kid for $200,000 ransom. With his hoped-for cut of the money, Connie intends to lure Rita, his waitress-girlfriend, to Montana to start a new life together. As dark events unfold, Connie's naivete is juxtaposed against a reality of double murder and betrayal. At tale's end, Connie, hiding in a cemetery on Easter Sunday morning, has lost what little he had in life. A somewhat unusual central character, Connie, the savage innocent, holds the reader's attention throughout this otherwise largely unsentimental novel. By an established poet and novelist, this is recommended for select collections.
- James B. Hemesath, Adams State Coll. Lib., Alamosa, Col.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671733028
• ISBN 13: 9780671733025
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208