Hold It 'Til It Hurts
T. Geronimo Johnson
Coffee House Press
<p>"The magnificence of <I>Hold It 'Til It Hurts</I> is not only in the prose and the story but also in the book's great big beating heart. These complex and compelling characters and the wizardry of Johnson's storytelling will dazzle and move you from first page to last. Novels don't teach us how to live but <I>Hold It 'Til It Hurts</I> will make you hush and wonder."&#151;Anthony Swofford, author of <I>Jarhead</I></p><p><p>"This rich and sophisticated first novel brings together pleasures rarely found in one book: <I>Hold It 'Til It Hurts </I>is a novel about war that goes in search of passionate love, a dreamy thriller, a sprawling mystery, a classical quest for a lost brother in which the shadowy quarry is clearly the seeker&#8217;s own self, and a meditation on family and racial identity that makes its forerunners in American fiction look innocent by comparison."&#151;Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award winner for <I>Lord of Misrule</I></p></p><BR><p>When Achilles Conroy and...</BR></p>