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PRAISE FOR PETE HAMILL’S
SNOW IN AUGUST

“Simply a wonderful story and well told.”


Mike Barnicle,
Boston Globe

“A beautiful tale of pain, evil, retribution, and hope.”


Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“Vivid… Hamill delivers… You can hear the sounds of kids playing stickball, taste the Communion wafers, and see Jackie Robinson
stealing home.”


Associated Press

“Once again, Pete Hamill shows us how marvelous a writer he is. This novel is a delight.”


Peter Maas

“Lovely yet heartbreaking…. [A] moving story of a boy confronting morality…. In Michael Devlin, Hamill has created one of
the most endearing characters in recent adult fiction…. SNOW IN AUGUST is a minor miracle in itself.”


Hartford Courant

“Hamill is an effortless master at evoking a bygone era…. All [he] has to do is say ‘Shazam!’ and he brings to palpable life
the streets of postwar Brooklyn and the prepubescent soul of a boy coming of age.”


San Jose Mercury News

“Charming and affecting.”


Miami Herald

“In this beautifully woven tale, Hamill captures perfectly the daily working-class world of postwar Brooklyn… Will thrill
believers and make nonbelievers pause…. He examines with a cool head and a big heart the vulnerabilities and inevitable oneness
of humankind.”


Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

“Brings a fascinating time and place to very real life.”


Orlando Sentinel

“Hamill is as readable as ever… the time-warp element and terrific descriptions will appeal to many.”


Kirkus Reviews

“With a mastery of language and imagery that has made him the journalist-editor-novelist he is, Hamill meshes several disparate
works seamlessly, in lush colors.”


Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“A godsend…. Only the hard-hearted could fail to be moved by this old-fashioned story about friendship.”


St. Paul Pioneer Press

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