Saint of the Narrows Street

Praise

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