Birth of the Foreclosure Novel for the Recession Generation | PressReleasePoint »
Posted By bhazelgrove 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & EntertainmentWith millions of people in foreclosure it makes sense that a novel would be written about foreclosure. A novel published by a small press in Chicago seems to be the only one right now taking on this subject. Rocket Man by William Elliott Hazelgrove www.billhazelgrove.com centers around a man fighting to keep his home. The Chicago Sun Times compared the book to John Irving and John Updike and went on to say: "Hazelgrove masterfully gives voice to the numbness and fright, as well as the humor of a man trying to save his house and family." http://www.billhazelgrove.com/suntimes.pdf
Like the Beat Writers who summed up post war America, we now have writers who will try and catch the tenor of "The Great Recession Generation." A difficult thing to do when a book is usually a year out from publication.
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