Author: Kevin Dooley. Published by Baico Publishing Consultants Inc., Ottawa, ON., 2006, 1st Edition. Gracefully SIGNED, dedicated and dated by the Author on the title page. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inch, 194 pages.
BY THE HOB, A Novel by Kevin Dooley, is a story of common men and women struggling to realize their dreams and surmount adversities to reach beyond them.
Having had a hard row to hoe himself, Dooley's characters are reality-based with no pulled punches. His women, singly and in groups, in all their variety, are almost real to the touch. His characters are driven by their situations and their situations are tough and very real. Patrick and Mary weave their often-separate ways through unspeakable circumstances and social conditions throughout the sea-ports of the world. Both carry the daemons of a poor Irish upbringing, yet ferociously oppose the injustices and cruelty they find blocking their every step towards surviving with a family in an uncaring world.
