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Fork in the Road
By Denis Hamill
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Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture From Academy Award®­winning Director Barry Levinson

With this stunning literary portrait of ill-fated love played out amid the romantic squalor and violent underpinnings of contemporary Dublin and New York, Denis Hamill has crafted a work of greater resonance than anything he has yet written.

When Colin Coyne, a young American filmmaker seeking aesthetic inspiration in Ireland, catches a pickpocket red-handed in a hotel pub, all it takes is one look into her dazzling eyes for him to fall hard. Purely for the sake of research -- or so he tells himself -- he hurtles headlong into the bewitching world of Gina Furey, a stunningly beautiful, iron-willed denizen of Dublin's gypsy criminal underground. Before he knows what's happening, he finds himself a star player in a Pygmalion-like relationship rich with dramatic film possibilities: the earnest Yankee auteur woos and wins the dangerous gypsy thief. But the tenuous lines separating art and reality soon dissolve and the neatly linear screenplay unfolding inside Colin's head is eclipsed by the brutal chaos and unpredictability of true life.

By turns devastating and hopeful, bittersweet and hilarious, Fork in The Road is both a tragic love story and the riveting drama of one man's heartbreaking journey from exhilaration to desolation.

Frank McCourt author of Angela's Ashes As far as I know, this is the first time an American writer has dared grapple with an Irish inner city. No one has done it better.
Publishers Weekly There is never a dull moment in this charming story...Hamill has perfectly captured the trill of an Irish brogue, and he loads the plot with remarkable twists, keeping readers in suspense until the final page of this lively, sad, humorous tale.
Susan Dodd,author of The Mourner's Bench and MamawEqual parts hilarity and heartbreak. With this unique novel, Denis Hamill has very nearly invented a new genre, the slapstick tragedy. Its astonishing heroine, Gina Furey, is as indelible as a tattoo. You may never get over her."
Frank McCourt,author of Angela's Ashes and 'TisWhen you follow the career of Denis Hamill in his journalism and novels, you see the development of a powerful talent. But this is a big surprise. I expected another tough thriller. I expected another tour through the underbelly of New York. I didn't expect a love story, and I certainly didn't expect to be left wide-eyed at Denis Hamill's grasp of backstreet Dublin street talk. As far as I know, this is the first time an American writer has dared grapple with an Irish inner city. No one has done it better.
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