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Rob Reuland practiced law on Wall Street for many years before
joining the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, where he was assigned
to the Homicide Bureau. He spent his youth in Iowa before attending
Cambridge University and the Vanderbilt Law School. He lives in Brooklyn
with his wife and two young children. His official website is www.robreuland.com.
Photograph © Marion Ettlinger
Hollowpoint
Brooklyn prosecutor Andrew Giobberti can still remember himself as a father, as a husband, and as the chief of the Homicide Bureau, working out of a hard city’s hardest precincts. That was before a car accident took his daughter but left him untouched-except where it matters. That was before his wife walked out. That was before he became mired in blame and regret that for a year has emptied his life of all meaning and purpose. Everyone wrote him off as too far gone for saving. Then a case crosses Gio’s desk-the murder of a young girl-that may change everything. Over one impossibly hot August, Gio confronts the fine line that separates the guilty from the innocent, the killers from those who put them away. And as he seeks the girl’s killer, the truth he uncovers may be the final hit. Or it may give him back his life. With graphic intensity and mordant wit, Hollowpoint captures the stark urgency of lives on the edge.
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Rob Reuland's Summer Reading List
Camouflage
by Murray Bail
Normally I never (rarely) read short fiction, but Bail--an
extraordinarily unprolific Australian--is an exception. His three
novels in thirty years are strange and elegant, and this collection
features new material along with his famous The Drover's Wife.
The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
This "classic"--I hate that word--eluded me for twenty
years, so now that Modern Library has a new translation it seems a
good time at last to read it.
Deuz Lo Volt!
by Evan S. Connell
I recently read Connell's devastatingly right-on Diary of a Rapist and want to see what he has been up to lately. Found a signed
first at Strand for five bucks. I love New York.
Jack Maggs
by Peter Carey
The second Australian on my list, Carey endeared himself to
me with Kelly Gang. Consider how Australian writers, like black writers,
frequently deal in their work with the the biform nature of their
place in the world.
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
The over-the-top praise for Atonement is explicable as a lifetime
achievement award, for McEwan's earlier stuff seems to have much more
point. Somehow I missed "Amsterdam," though. So many books,
so little time!
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