"Sweet Dream Baby is a beautiful book. Sterling Watson is surehanded and telling in a story that is as elegiac as it is gripping."-Michael Connelly, author of Chasing the Dime "Some delicious page-turning."-Kirkus Reviews. A Book Sense 76 Top 10 Selection. Named to Top Ten Crime Books of , Toronto Globe and Mail "Watson proves himself a first-rate storyteller."-Publishers WeeklyBrand: Sourcebooks Landmark. Sterling Watson's fifth novel, "Sweet Dream Baby," has the feel of a well built, well loved home at a time when most novels with bestseller potential are empty houses. Tom Waits sang that a house without love ain't nothing but a house where somebody lives/5(22). Watson is a Southern writer tipping his hat to Sheriff Bill, but he is also an American writer who has channeled the spirit of a young nation in all its postwar, hip-twisting bravado and its infatuation with love in the midst of the baby boom. I was born in , and "Sweet Dream Baby" made me nostalgic for the youth of my parents, the parking and cruising, drinking malts in juke joints, eating burgers and fries in /5(22).
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Watson's characters are brought vividly to life through Travis's touching, powerful and intensely personal voice. A dark and evocative coming of age tale, Sweet Dream Baby begins steeped in innocence and ends in a dramatically different place. "Sweet Dream Baby is a beautiful book. Sterling Watson is surehanded and telling in a story that is as elegiac as it is gripping."-Michael Connelly, author of Chasing the Dime "Some delicious page-turning."-Kirkus Reviews. A Book Sense 76 Top 10 Selection. Named to Top Ten Crime Books of , Toronto Globe and Mail. Watson (Deadly Sweet, , etc.) serves up a nicely packed if sentimental and ultimately melodramatic teenage romp-turned-violent in an Eisenhower-era Florida www.doorway.ru are all the elements of a classic southern horror tale: bored and sex-mad teenagers; early rock-’n’-roll music on car radios; moonshine; and a mean-eyed, laconic sheriff.
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