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Sunrise | | Revisiting Gatsby in a Different Part of Long Island For all the subliminal Fitzgerald influence, Crooke has crafted his own compelling discovery story. -The East Hampton Independent - June 25, 2008 Read the Full Review
| | | 'Gatsby' for Today Crooke has brought us a slice of real life, covered in fine dialogue and vivid characterizations, living characters and situations that smack us across the face with the back of a familiar hand. -The Berkshire Eagle - April 13, 2008 Read the Full Review
| | | Sunrise Offers A Story About Individuals But Also America's Sense of Self Like all stories that speak truly of the human condition, it stays with the reader long after the last page has been turned. -Connecticut Muse - Spring 2008 Read the Full Review
| | | Powerful Novel Draws on Current Events to Relay Character's Spiritual Journey Robert Crooke's new novel, Sunrise, spins a beautiful tale of loss and illusion that early reviews have compared to The Great Gatsby and Atonement. -PRWeb.Com - March 3, 2008 Read the Full Review
| | | Radio Interview with Robert Crooke Bob recently gave an interview about his latest novel, Sunrise, to the Inside Scoop radio news service in Austin, Texas. -Inside Scoop Live - February 27, 2008 Download the MP3 File Listen to the Podcast (at Learn Out Loud.Com)
| | | Bridgewater Novel Echoes 'Gatsby' "I have a sense that most Americans today would take back some of the decisions made in 2002," said Mr. Crooke. "I think those were decisions made under great duress." -The Litchfield County Times - February 8, 2008 Read the Full Review
| | | Interview with Robert Crooke Bob recently gave an interview about his latest novel, Sunrise, to the Reader Views news service in Austin, TX. -Reader Views - January 23, 2008 Read the Full Review
| | | Sunrise Crooke offers a dark tale of alcoholism, recklessness and the less-attractive aspects of the 1960s as they played out one long-ago summer in the beach town of Montauk, N.Y. Narrator Stephen Dahl returns to Montauk, on the eastern end of Long Island, after an absence of some three decades to attend the funeral of an old friend. It’s not an easy return. Crooke gives radioactive potency to Stephen’s many false steps, and they may well cook his newly reformed goose. -Kirkus Discoveries - January 17, 2008 Read the Full Review
| | iUniverse Publishes "Neo-Modernist" Novel by Robert Crooke
Set in New York, and in the fashionable beach towns of Long Island’s East End, Sunrise follows the interwoven lives of three friends from the late 1960s to the present, exploring the confluence of art, commerce, politics and celebrity along the way. Readers will find emotional power and narrative drive in this quintessentially American story. With its perfectly rendered physical setting, Sunrise draws readers into the reality of place and the universality of myth in a daring, Modernist style.
-PR.Com - December 29, 2007 Read the Full Review
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American Family | Novel on Life in the Mid Hudson Valley in the 50's to be Discussed at Merritt Books this Sunday
With its historic setting in the heart of the region where Benedict Arnold became America’s first archetype of disloyalty and betrayal, Crooke’s novel explores this country’s ongoing ambivalence toward non-conformity and dissent. American Family raises questions about why a nation born of radical thinking frequently feels a need to silence or discredit fellow citizens who question or object to intolerance, unfairness or the mere status quo.
-The Putnam County News and Recorder - March 1, 2006 Read The Full Review
| | | Robert Crooke Has Crafted a Compelling Summer Read
Novels set in the near past involving the political extremes we have lived through can be very intriguing. When the book is a bucolic that turns into a mystery, then into a thriller, then into a polemic and then back into a bucolic, scraping the family saga genre on the way, it's a lot to take in all at one reading. Difficult, that is, unless it's so well crafted that it simply drags you along from format to format until you can't keep from picking it back up to find out which book you're reading with the same gusto you put into following the storyline.
-J. Peter Bergman, The Berkshire Eagle - August 7, 2005 Read The Full Review
| | Wordplay: Robert Crooke Reads From His First Novel Robert Crooke, author of American Family, is an experienced journalist, writer and media executive...American Family, published in January 2005, is his first novel.
-Papyri Books Bookstore - Summer/Fall 2005 Read The Full Review
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Robert Crooke gives the reader a compelling and suspenseful tale in American Family...it should solidly establish its author as one of today's talented writers of fiction.
-Patricia D’Ascoli, Artis Magazine - April-May, 2005 Read The Full Review
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To his credit, Crooke, a former sportswriter and Long Island historian, manages to remain faithful to the complex and treacherous politics of the '50s, and his character's moral battles, even as the mystery heats up. There's not an unlikely or dull character among the lot - even Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson make appearances.
-Kirkus Discoveries - March 2005 Read The Full Review
| | | New Book on an Ugly Time
During summers in the 1950s, Robert Crooke and his relatives would gather at their great-grandfather's house in Garrison, N.Y. In the wee hours of these otherwise happy reunions, the talk would inevitably turn to politics and the latest testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee...Now, he has used that knowledge for the background of his first book, a murder mystery steeped in the fears and prejudices of a particularly ugly period in U.S. history.
-E.L. Lefferts, Litchfield County Times - March 3, 2005 Read The Full Review
| | Crooke's First Novel Is An Excellent Read
Once in a while we are privileged to read a novel that not only affords us the opportunity to reflect on significant events in our country’s history, but also engages and sustains our interest by providing us with an exciting and suspenseful story.
-Patricia D’Ascoli, The New Milford Spectrum - February 25, 2005 Read The Full Review
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