Down to the Dirt (21 page)

Winner of the Percy Janes First Novel Award
Finalist for the Winterset Award
Finalist for the Atlantic Book Award
Nominated for the Dublin Literary IMPAC Award

“Compulsively readable. I couldn’t put it down…I can’t wait for the next book.”

—Mary Walsh

“Raunchy, humorous and energetic…A gritty, moving portrait of growing up—or trying to, anyway.”

—
Publishers Weekly

“Well written, fervently paced…capturing vivid moments and the strong-willed voice of rabble-rouser Keith Kavanagh.”

—
Library Journal

“Combine Frank McCourt and Roddy Doyle’s gifts for evoking a sense of place with Raymond Carver’s way with dialogue, and you have
Down to the Dirt.
”

—
Winnipeg Free Press

“A terrific debut…
Down to the Dirt
is scary, sexy and funny, sometimes all three at once. It’s a hell of a ride.”

—Michael Crummey, author of
The Wreckage

“A beautiful, artful book. It reads like a 21st-century
Huckleberry Finn,
a compelling mixture of innocence and lost innocence. Sex, hockey, friendship, loneliness, love, self-destruction, coming-of-age—it’s all here.”

—Jonathan Ames, author of
Wake Up, Sir!

Down to the Dirt
© 2004 by Joel Thomas Hynes.

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