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What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does indeed for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel in regards to a young drug seller having a very bad weekend. Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a great deal of worries. His older sibling, Jose-sorry, Tariq-is coming back from a stretch in jail after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was said to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his sibling, which might have something regarding the actual fact that Alfredo is now seeing Tariq's ex-girlfriend, Isabel, who is eight weeks pregnant. Tariq's violent streak is most likely #1 be concerned on Alfredo's list. Also, he must steal a pit bull terrier. For the homecoming dogfight. Burgess brings alive the wealthy and stunning milieu of his hometown local Queens in every its glorious variety. This is actually the real New York, a place where Pakistanis, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, An glos, African People in america, and Western world Indians scrap and mingle and love. However the real star here's Burgess's incredible ear for language-the voices of his heroes leap from the page in riotous, spot-on dialogue. The external boroughs have their own language, in which a polite greeting is fraught with menace, and an insult can be the expression of the most soft love. With a tale as intricately plotted as a Shakespearean comedy-or revenge tragedy, with the matter-and an electrically col loquial prose style, Dogfight, a Love Account establishes Matt Burgess as an exuberant new speech in contemporary books. The fantastic Queens novel has arrived.
