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PRAISE FOR BILL HILLMANN AND THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD

“A raucous but soulful account of growing up on the mean streets of Chicago, and the choices kids are forced to make

on a daily basis. This cool, incendiary rites of passage

novel is the real deal.”

—IRVINE WELSH, AUTHOR OF TRAINSPOTTING

“Hillmann’s prose is sharp, his dialogue is righteous and the F-word hits the reader square in the face like belt-fed .50 caliber ammunition. The Old Neighborhood is a wonderful first novel.”

—THOM JONES, AUTHOR OF THE PUGILIST AT REST

“Tough and real and filled with a remarkably interesting cast

of characters, this is a novel in the great Chicago tradition.

Nelson Algren would have loved it, as I do.”

—RICK KOGAN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE SENIOR WRITER & COLUMNIST, WGN RADIO HOST, AUTHOR, AND CHICAGO LEGEND

“Bill Hillmann’s The Old Neighborhood is like a right hook to the chin with brass knuckles, crackling with both bravery and urgency. Brilliantly evoking Nelson Algren’s Neon Wilderness and Richard Price’s The Wanderers, the novel is unflinchingly honest in its depictions of class and race, a deft portrait of

our sometimes-less-than-fair city.”

—JOE MENO, AUTHOR OF HAIRSTYLES OF THE DAMNED

“Bill Hillmann writes with a furious humanity

and wide open heart.”

—TONY FITZPATRICK, RENOWNED ARTIST AND AUTHOR

“Hillmann describes in detail the horrifying, hilarious and

moving events of a childhood dominated by a heroin-addled career criminal of a brother. The story is like something

from a Scorsese film.”

—THE SPECTATOR UK

“A dark, urban tale.”

—RESONANCE FM LONDON

“Bill Hillmann’s The Old Neighborhood is as good as it gets. The generosity, style and passion of his story gripped me from the beginning and convinced me as few other books have that here was a writer to be reckoned with. Chicago has a new

literary star in its firmament.”

—JOHN HEMINGWAY, AUTHOR OF STRANGE TRIBE AND GRANDSON OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“Bill Hillmann, a veteran of the streets, the boxing ring and

the staging of knock down drag out literary happenings finally gets his say in novel form. We love its raw authenticity.

Bill Hill is the Rill Dill...”

—KENT AND KEITH ZIMMERMAN, AUTHORS OF HELL’S ANGELS, ROTTEN, AND OPERATION FAMILY SECRETS

“Bill Hillmann has written a top notch novel.”

—MARC KELLY SMITH, ORIGINATOR OF POETRY SLAM AND THE HOST OF THE UPTOWN POETRY SLAM

“Hillmann paints such vivid scenes of the north side, I feel as

if I am right there. I’ve always believed that this part of Chicago and these neighborhoods deserve more literary attention than they have ever gotten. Hillmann’s novel

delivers, showing the side of Chicago that those who grew

up and worked here would recognize. His language is powerful and his characters lively. The central murder scene is so well conceived it was like I was working it as a cop. Hillmann is

a writer worth keeping an eye on, writing about a city that

is just aching for the right storytellers.”

—MARTIN PREIB, AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED MEMOIR THE WAGON AND VETERAN CHICAGO COP IN ROGERS PARK

“Bill Hillmann takes you deep inside what it’s really like growing up on the streets in a tough Chi-town neighborhood. Excellent read.”

—FRANK CALABRESE JR., FORMER CHICAGO MOBSTER AND AUTHOR OF OPERATION FAMILY SECRETS

“The Old Neighborhood is a rib-wrenching look at man’s desperate desire to survive and rise above even the most harrowing of circumstances. His dialogue is crisp and true.

He captures the street and its ethic in a way anyone who has come out of such an environment can relate to. But the story itself is one that any reader, anywhere, will come to care about because it is as basic as life itself—live every moment to its

fullest because that moment could easily be your last.”

—JOE DISTLER, LEGENDARY BULL RUNNER IN PAMPLONA AND NYT PUBLISHED ESSAYIST

“It’s an exciting read, hard to put down. It brings back memories of the neighborhoods on the North Side, the speech patterns, it takes me back there. It’s a great book.”

—DAVID DIAZ, FORMER CHICAGO GOLDEN GLOVE CHAMPION, ’96 US OLYMPIAN AND WBC LIGHTWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION