The Corruption of Hollis Brown is written in sharply vivid vignettes, like the literary equivalent of macrophotography: intimacy on a grand scale that makes the reader want to both back away and lean closer.
HarperCollins
9780063285835
HarperCollins
9780063285835
The Corruption of Hollis Brown is written in sharply vivid vignettes, like the literary equivalent of macrophotography: intimacy on a grand scale that makes the reader want to both back away and lean closer.
The small town where 17-year-old Hollis Brown has spent his life is “a forgotten American dreamscape"—the type of marginal Midwestern community that survived a mass exodus of industry, but no longer has the means to start over somewhere new.
Hollis has loving parents and fiercely protective best friends, but there is a gnawing emptiness inside…
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