Windy City Sinners: A Novel, by Melanie Villines
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"Windy City Sinners is a freewheeling, wry and whimsical novel about the deepest human feelings and questions." PATRICK T. REARDON (patricktreardon.com)
Part crime caper à la Donald Westlake, part magic realism tale in the spirit of Gabriel García Márquez, part John Kennedy Toolesque hijinks and high comedy, Windy City Sinners offers mystery and mayhem with fun and froth mixed in for good measure. The story takes place on the Far Northwest Side of Chicago, right on the edge of town where the cops and members of the Outfit live side-by-side in perfect disharmony. The unlikely partners in crime include a notorious hitman, a detective in league with a drug kingpin, a vengeful mailman, an embezzling bank clerk, a petty holdup man, a conniving cleaning lady, an embittered priest, and the ghost of composer Antonio Vivaldi.
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Windy City Sinners: A Novel, by Melanie Villines- Amazon Sales Rank: #1234003 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .65" w x 5.50" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
About the Author Born and raised in Chicago, Melanie Villines is a novelist, scriptwriter, and producer/researcher for true crime TV shows who lives in Los Angeles. Visit her at melanievillines.com.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I really liked that combination By Tricia Whitworth I found WINDY CITY SINNERS to be ultimately a very lovable book. The characters conspire to do wrong things, try to make them right, leave it up to fate, conspire some more, and keep trying in life. I wasn't that familiar with "Magic Realism" but after reading both Melanie Villines and Haruki Murakami, I am a convert! WINDY CITY moves quickly and at first I found the short paragraphs and quick cut-a-ways a bit disorienting. Then I found the groove of the book and went with it. A wise cat who moves through people's lives, along with a decorative dressed-up goose who is an unknowing catalyst to certain characters, create a world that pulls you in. The people are Chicago people - tough, caustic, sly, good-hearted, suffer-no-fools type. Okay, these are the people of many cities (and countries, immigrants are prevalent in this book) but if you're from Illinois/Chicago, you recognize these people, and their locales, right away. Many delightful things happen that are hilarious. And there are lots of deep thoughts and realizations carefully threaded throughout. I really liked that combination. . .this book will not disappoint you in terms of spirituality, tenderness, humanity and darkly-humored goofiness.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not to mention the plastic goose!! By MaryM Light and delightfully hilarious, but finally a statement about the basic redeemability of all humanity. Plot revolves around a cache of cocaine stolen by a rogue cop, now in prison, who has strong-armed another cop to stash it until he gets out. This guy is off the job, laid up with a bad back, and he ends up hiding the coke in a plastic lawn ornament statue of the Virgin Mary. Thus the fun begins! the cast of characters includes an elderly Polish cleaning woman who steals plastic flowers from gravesites, her immigrant nephew, who is her live in handyman/indentured servant who resorts to a string of robberies he hopes will finance his return to Poland and a new career as a HipHop performer, a Mafia enforcer who loves cats and wants out of the mob, a vain priest who dreams of creating great music and is used by the ghost of Vivaldi to channel his post mortem masterpieces, a dry-cleaning Queen who gets her only wish--to become pregnant--and believes she will be the mother of a sacred child, even though she is 60, who also turns her dry-cleaning business into a sin-removal business, and hits the jackpot, because everyone has sins to get rid of.--oh, and there's also the gay postman who wants only to pursue a career as an artist--with peace and quiet and room enough to paint. Things get pretty crazy with all these dreams and desires tangled up with hiding and finding and losing and using that stolen coke, disputes about ownership of the magical clairvoyant cat, and competing dry-cleaning and house-cleaning babka run businesses thriving on the promise of cleaning away your sins, not just the dirt and stains on your clothes and homes, but on your souls. The story is full of hilarious developments, but the resolution is warmly satisfying, all these flawed characters discover/recover their own basic humanity as the action winds down, and we are left with them, to find what has true and lasting worth.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Delightful Read By Ellaraine Lockie I confess that when I saw the genre, Magical Realism, on the description of WINDY CITY SINNERS that I paused in my decision to order the book. This was because I was not familiar with the term, and it sounded . . . well, weird. But knowing Melanie Villines to be a superb writer and editor, I decided to give the book a try. And I’m completely thrilled that I did because the story is charming and funny (laugh-out-loud kind) with characters that I hope will appear in a sequel. I found myself reading this book during breakfast and lunch, and the only reason dinner wasn’t included is that books aren’t allowed at the table in my house at dinnertime. I ended-up ordering a second copy as a gift!
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