Praise for Saint of the Narrows Street "The stunning
Saint of the Narrows Street is William Boyle's best novel yet, a vibrant, operatic tale of two resilient, big-hearted sisters and the fateful night that sets their life on a path they never intended. Not since Richard Price has a writer brought New York to such vivid, spectacular life, and Boyle's southern Brooklyn is all his own: a neighborhood pulsing with hard-earned humor, dive-bar pleasures and thunderous heartbreak."
--Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Beware the Woman
"You don't read a William Boyle novel as much as you inhabit his intricately drawn world.
Saint of the Narrows Street is on par with the best of Pete Dexter, Richard Price, and William Kennedy. This is a tour de force, knockout book; an immediate classic that will stay with you long after you finish the last perfect chapter."
--Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let the Devil Ride and The Heathens "
Saint of the Narrows Street is a hundred-proof shot of tragic love. Nobody writes like William Boyle. Every character has a huge thumping heart. You can smell the skeevy bars and taste the home-cooked lasagna. Boyle deals in details, but this is a big, epic novel, and it's his best yet."
--Eli Cranor, Edgar Award-winning author of Don't Know Tough Praise for William Boyle
"Boyle studies his neighbors with a mixture of affection and despair worthy of a Bruce Springsteen song. He has a real thing for working-class folks. People like this, they need people like Boyle."
―The New York Times Book Review
"[Boyle] knows the music of the Italian American voices, from punk to bar stool to operatic, like nobody else: Mob goons, college dropouts, melancholy widows and pink-haired rockers mix it up in this deliciously convoluted tale that reads like a fresh new season of
The Sopranos."
--The Washington Post "A funny, gritty, touching narrative about the strength of three New York women caught in a world of abusive men, broken families, and mob violence. Crime fiction usually stays within the confines of the genre, but Boyle breaks away from those restrictions."
―NPR "As wildly funny and sweet as it is frenetic and harrowing, William Boyle's new novel is full of dark splendor. Imagine Martin Scorsese and David O. Russell collaborating with Gena Rowlands and Ellen Burstyn and making magic."
--Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of You Will Know Me "William Boyle's stark and turbulent crime thriller boasts an endlessly fascinating and empathetic cast of characters. Hailing from Brooklyn himself, Boyle imbues the setting with an air of authenticity and stark realism as his characters leap from the page. Readers can only grasp at the slimmest of hopes in this grim, modern-day noir, but the determination of Boyle's characters defies expectations."
―BookPage, Starred Review
"Boyle's novels always deliver, and they always work on different levels: as noir and crime, as character studies, as working-class social commentaries. They're also impossible to put down and stay with you long after you've finished them."
―Southwest Review "Masterly literary noir. This mature, nuanced work is a must for George Pelecanos fans."
―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Boyle emerges not just as a consummate crime writer but as a poet of the underclass, unwaveringly portraying lives gone wrong but still finding a little moonlight 'spilling its light on the cracks in the sidewalks and all the cracked hearts.'"
―Booklist, Starred Review
