Hammond

by Jonathan LaPoma

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Pub Date Dec 18 2018 | Archive Date Jan 20 2019

Almendro Arts | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

Literary Fiction | New Adult

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Description

Warning: heavy profanity, child abuse, graphic sex, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and deeply disturbing psychological content. Also, this book is a character-led literary novel, not a plot-led commercial novel.

A group of troubled but charismatic boys in a tough Buffalo, NY neighborhood play basketball at a local park and dream of winning a state high school championship. Driven by raw talent and killer instinct, they dominate the court, but everywhere else, they feel like losers.

HAMMOND is told through the eyes of James Lombardi, a precocious but mentally ill boy who believes winning a championship will ease his “Evil Thoughts” and save his family, long haunted by generations of substance abuse, uncontrollable rage, and suicide.

A dark but humorous coming-of-age novel, HAMMOND offers a poetic and disturbing look inside the complex mind of an adolescent boy as he slowly learns that having the heart of a champion can sometimes be more burden than blessing.

*HAMMOND is the first novel in a loosely-linked series with THE SUMMER OF CRUD, UNDERSTANDING THE ALACRÁN, and DEVELOPING MINDS: AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY as books two, three, and four, respectively.

Warning: heavy profanity, child abuse, graphic sex, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and deeply disturbing psychological content. Also, this book is a character-led literary novel, not a plot-led...

A Note From the Publisher

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Advance Praise

Author is available for interviews, blog tours, autographed book giveaways, contests, and book club discussions.

Jonathan LaPoma is an award-winning, best-selling novelist, screenwriter, songwriter, and poet from Buffalo, NY. He's written four novels, twelve screenplays, and hundreds of songs and poems. His screenplays have won over 150 awards/honors at various international screenwriting competitions, and his black comedy script HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS was optioned by Warren Zide along with Wexlfish Pictures (AMERICAN PIE, FINAL DESTINATION, THE BIG HIT) in July 2017.

LaPoma’s novels have been recommended by Kirkus Reviews and Barnes and Noble (B&N Press Presents list), have hit the #1 Amazon Bestseller lists in the “Satire,” “Urban Life,” “Metaphysical,” “Metaphysical & Visionary,” and “Religious & Inspirational” Kindle categories (USA, Canada, and Australia), and have won awards/honors in the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award, the 2016 and 2017 Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Awards, and the 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes. He lives in San Diego, CA and teaches at a public secondary school.