NIGHTMOVERS

by Jack Dunphy ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 17, 1967

The nightmovers take off ahead of their debts to some new place. Sometimes they're heartbreakers. And the dead are also nightmovers.... This litany of loss and loneliness takes place in Brooklyn where trees may grow but rats scuttle across the street. Left behind--her husband has died, her fish store has been taken away--is a middle-aged woman with almost nothing in life except her visits to Father Rose. He has stopped listening. Then there's the boy she takes in, sixteen year old Leroy Kelly, who pretends to be a cousin from the other side. Actually he's all ""dodges and lies"" and much of the time here is spent in the anticipation that he will leave her just as suddenly as he appeared.... Jack Dunphy's first novel in many years, the theme gives a continuity and cumulative substance to brief moments, and memories. It is hard to say to whom it will speak although it has a lyrical, even elegiac, style of its own.

Pub Date: Jan. 17, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION