Long Time Gone: A Novel

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A 49-year-old divorced journalist returns to his old neighbourhood for his father's wake and tries to exorcise the demons of 1969 - a year that saw his life shattered in a purple haze of drugs and violence between the working class and the counter-culture. He also pieces back together the lost love of his life with a woman, now a widowed businesswoman, whose father's unsolved murder remains part of the puzzle of his life.

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Karen Campbell The Boston Globe [An] engaging tale...compellingly well paced and laced with a moderate dose of sex and violence, as well as threads of psychological probings and revelations that go well beyond the scope of routine whodunit fare. New York magazine [A] vivid picture of the sixties...hazily remembered. Pete Hamill, New York Daily News Yes, he's my brother, but [Long Time Gone] is a fierce, truthful novel about the way the '60s came to Brooklyn, the wounds inflicted, the scars that never went away. Sometimes appalling, but full of deep human pity. The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) [P]age-turning storytelling...Don't even bother to crack this book unless you have some time on your hands. It's that hard to put down.

Author Bio

FORK IN THE ROAD is Denis Hamill's sixth novel. He is currently a columnist for the New York DAILY NEWS and lives in New York City.