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Martin Seay on The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill: “A scorching Oresteia for the twenty-first century.”

June 4, 2017 by James Charlesworth

Here’s what Martin Seay, award-winning author of The Mirror Thief had to say about Patricide: The eponymous industrialist of James Charlesworth’s debut novel is a bootstrapping striver, a paragon of ruthless certitude, a malevolent Forrest Gump of American capitalism; he’s also the father of grown kids with wrecked lives and serious scores to settle.  As Charlesworth […]

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Kathleen Rooney calls The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill a “riveting and rangy debut”

March 23, 2017 by Tim

Here’s what Kathleen Rooney, author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, had to say about Patricide: Some people are more like planets in the outsized pull they exert over the others whom they draw like satellites into their orbits.  Such is the titular entrepreneurial egomaniac of James Charlesworth’s riveting and rangy debut novel, The Patricide […]

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