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Corner Boy
This 1957 novel relates the violent rise and fall of 18-years-old Jake Adams, whose Buick Dynaflow, custom-made suits, and attractiveness to women are all the fuits of his job pushing dope for the Organization.
- GenresFiction
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1957
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December 24, 2025
End-of-Year 'Loose Ends Bother Me' Microreview in Three Sentences or Less:
Corner Boy should be a case study used to counter every protest that a book must grab its reader within x pages, or suffer the ignominy of relegation to the dread “DNF” or “TL;DR” shitpiles that litter this rathole. With one of the best slow-burn starts I’ve read (in that I was bored fucking witless for 30 pages—yep, guilty as charged), Simmons shifts gears and loosens the book from a tight character study into a wide-lensed, poly-threaded sprawl, introducing a growing cast of POVs and flooding the pages with a sulfuric stench that clings to everything human. A not-very-minor masterpiece, as fated to Doom as anything Bobby Liebling ever put his name to.
Corner Boy should be a case study used to counter every protest that a book must grab its reader within x pages, or suffer the ignominy of relegation to the dread “DNF” or “TL;DR” shitpiles that litter this rathole. With one of the best slow-burn starts I’ve read (in that I was bored fucking witless for 30 pages—yep, guilty as charged), Simmons shifts gears and loosens the book from a tight character study into a wide-lensed, poly-threaded sprawl, introducing a growing cast of POVs and flooding the pages with a sulfuric stench that clings to everything human. A not-very-minor masterpiece, as fated to Doom as anything Bobby Liebling ever put his name to.
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