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Original Title:	Through The Windshield
ISBN:	0966659201 (ISBN13: 9780966659207)
Edition Language:	English

Through the Windshield

Mike DeCapite

Hardcover | Pages: 457 pages

Rating: 4.56 | 39 Users | 5 Reviews

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Mike DeCapite's Through the Windshield is a journey to the end of the night in a '74 LeSabre. What began in 1985 as a single page of notes for a book about a year in the life of a down-and-out cab driver became, five years later, this tour de force novel, full of characters, weather, talk, illuminations, laughter—full of life. Widely circulated in manuscript and excerpted in little magazines, the book already had a reputation by the time it was published in the original Sparkle Street edition of 1998. Now, Red Giant returns this intimate epic to print.

"Read it for its humor. Read it for its pain. Or read it for its language, a hard-boiled version of Beat expansiveness. One thing's certain: with all the different and sometimes contradictory things that this book accomplishes, you'll never read anything else like it." —Frank Green, The Cleveland Free Times

"One of the better American novels published in the last several years . . ." —Harvey Pekar, The Austin Chronicle

"A novel of undeniable and unusual merit, DeCapite's achievement is so extraordinary that a belated appreciation must be penned in the hope it will cause at least one other person to pick up this book. . . . [A] down-at-the-heels masterpiece." —Jocko Weyland, Rain Taxi

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Title	:	Through the Windshield
Author	:	Mike DeCapite
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 457 pages
Published	:	October 31st 1998 by Sparkle Street Books
Categories	:	Classics. Literature. American. Fiction

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Ratings: 4.56 From 39 Users | 5 Reviews

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Find a copy, buy some cheap beer and cigarettes (just for this book), sit on your porch if you can, and laugh your ass off.This is available through Amazon.com's Kindle program.

A gritty Cleveland story that channels Bukowski, a 23 year old is adrift living in Tremont, paling around with his 50 year old neighbor as they gamble and drink their way over the course of a year. DeCapite really captures life in the blue collar town when you don't have any prospects, a solid job, relationship, and simply go through the paces. A hidden Cleveland gem that doesn't really get talked about when people mention books set in the city.



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Truly thoughtful and singular voice. The narrative structure is mysterious and telling at the same time. Seedy and dark but ultimately hopeful, I believe. A powerful, creative thrust. Will make you proud, disgusted, introspective and saddened all in one reading.

Truly thoughtful and singular voice. The narrative structure is mysterious and telling at the same time. Seedy and dark but ultimately hopeful, I believe. A powerful, creative thrust. Will make you proud, disgusted, introspective and saddened all in one reading.

I was living in Tremont, the neighborhood of Cleveland where much of Through The Windshield is set, when I first read this book. Really fun to visualize it taking place around me as I read. I enjoy a story told with a distinctive voice and character, and boy howdy, is this ever. Read this book, people.