Paradise Road

<p>It was my misfortune to have missed <i>The Quarterback</i> and thus be unaware of this fine unflinching writer. He does not prettify embroider ornament or otherwise offend against the utter dignity of his hard enduring characters; out of their meanness and misery he has made a story which I envy in prose as clean and businesslike as a switchblade. Make sure everybody hears about this book; it's not about a gambler and a broad and a fighter at all-it's about the human condition and it's beautiful.-<b>George V. Higgins</b> author of <i>The Friends of Eddie Coyle</i></p>