Hollowpoint: A Novel

by Robert Reuland and Robert Reuland

Book Overview

"Rob Reuland writes beautifully-about sadness and cities and injured dreams . . . he has renewed my faith in the health and future of the urban crime novel." -Dennis LehaneRobert Reuland's Hollowpoint... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375505016
• ISBN13: 9780375505010
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.1" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

A book about redemption

I picked up this book on tape at the library for a quickie read) to listen to while passing the time doing mundane household chores. What a nice surprise to find this multi-layered novel interwoven with human condition and survival in difficult circumstances. I found the story compelling and the characters flawed and interesting (always a plus). In the end the tale is all about the chance for redemption...of ourselves and others, often occuring at the same moment. I thought it was a bittersweet novel, beautifully written and well worth the time it would take you to read or listen to.

Tough, gritty and oh, so good

To simply call Rob Reuland's HOLLOWPOINT a crime novel would be unfair. Yes, there is a crime, but this outstanding first novel is more of a character driven morality play.Andrew Giobberti is a young, Brooklyn ADA, who works one of the toughest neighborhoods in the borough, East New York. Mired in regret and self-pity after his young daughter's death and abandoned by his wife, Gio's life is a wasteland of drinking and meaningless sex, until he is assigned a case involving the death of a fourteen year old girl.Both sarcastic wit and blunt reality drive HOLLOWPOINT in an examination of the fine lines which blur and separate the innocent from the guilty, and where even the morality of those who uphold the law is in question.HOLLOWPOINT is one of the finest novels I've read this year, and the very talented Rob Reuland is definitely worth watching.

Exceptional!

Here is one of those rare, utterly authentic books that could only have been written by someone who's experienced the raw, unpretty aspects of the life it depicts. In Hollowpoint, first-novelist Reuland (and in real life, senior DA in Brooklyn) gives us two very distinctive views of grief, as well as offering a plotline that snakes in on itself in endless coils. It's a book about pain, about guilt, and about sorrow. It contains some of the finest, most authentic dialogue I've ever read and depicts some of the most believable characters to be found anywhere. This is not easy reading, but it's a book that's impossible to put down. Sadly humorous, poignant, and wrenching. Most highly recommended.

Fantastic!

This is a remarkable journey thru Gio's mind as he reconciles the terrible tragedy from his own life with the tragedy he sees every day on the streets of Brooklyn. For those readers who prefer a complicated plot with lots of twists, there might be only disappointment with this novel. But for those who are interested in getting inside the mind of a man who can't quit, can't go on, and can't forgive himself, this is a fantastic read.

A truly first-rate thriller

In "Hollowpoint" author Rob Reuland has put together one of the best thrillers I've read in recent memory. Part of his secret is his depiction of his anti-hero, Andrew "Gio" Giobberti, a thoroughly un-likable, and yet kind of likable, assistant DA in Brooklyn. Gio has been on a downward slide since an act of negligence led to the accidental death of his daughter. But now he feels the opportunity for some renewal when he begins prosecution in the case of Kayla Harris, a 14-year-old girl killed in one of Brooklyn's tougher neighborhoods.All of that sounds pretty standard, but what sets Reuland's novel apart is his gritty and wonderful depictions of Brooklyn neighborhoods and characters, Gio's loathsome and pitiable personal life, and the generally haggard life in one of the nations most grueling DA offices. Fans of cookie-cutter thrillers who like to devour their novels in the span of a two-hour plane trip might want to pass this one by - it has too much good writing, too many intriguing characters, and too many plot developments not visible from a hundred miles away. However, "Hollowpoint" is a truly engaging and well-written novel that is sure to please those readers who wish that most thrillers could be something more than they are.