Season of Gene: A Novel

By Dallas Hudgens

Book Overview

When his shady business partner, Gene, dies rounding the bases during a baseball game during their Friday-night league, Joe's simple life is met with a hectic, threatening series of events that force... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416541489
• ISBN13: 9781416541486
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

So Good for So Many Reasons

Season of Gene is an amazing book. Just over 200 pages long and nearly perfectly plotted, the story's real surprise is its two female leads, Joy and Theresa. One is a sudden widow and the other a struggling single mother, and both are drawn with empathy, humor, and above all generosity. Hudgens is a very rare author, whose great comic timing and breakneck pacing co-exist with his ability to perfectly paint small moments of human frailty and decency alike. The book isn't easy to classify, but it is easy to love.

Reading IS fun!

Loved it. The humor and plot is top-notch and fast-paced, but don't be fooled, the characters find their way into your heart and stay there-even the dead ones. This book is different from Hudgens' "Drive Like Hell," (as different as North and South), but "Gene" is just as funny, heart-breaking, and well-written. Hudgens is an adept storyteller. Great Christmas gift!

Another classic from Hudgens

Better than Drive in my opinion. Fast paced and no real "soft spots". Provided a much needed diversion and escape from reality with its' well developed characters and plot.

Grand Slam Read

Season of Gene is a grand slam for Drive Like Hell author Dallas Hudgens. If you liked Drive (really, if you haven't already, you should check out this book), and you're looking for another page-turning, funny, fast-paced and edgy book you will not be disappointed. When Joe Rice's business partner, Gene, dies rounding third base, Joe's quiet suburban life takes some unexpected turns,invovling gun-toting gangsters, internet drug scams, and a search for Babe Ruth's bat. Funny, unpredictable and certainly enjoyable, this boisterous and raucous novel will keep you busy turning pages.