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ReviewsDouble Time
Can a novel change the story of your life? Priscilla Cogan’s new novel Double Time will keep you up all night reading. Once you join Billy T. Pickle’s escape from a bank holdup he carries out to keep his wife Carmelite in shopping money so she won’t kick him out, you won’t want to leave him. Billy kidnaps a scruffy teenage girl after the robbery - who doesn’t mind because she was running away from home anyway - and discovers the tires of his getaway car (Carmelita’s) have been slashed. Within the sound of sirens Billy jumps into a powder blue Dodge Dart named Matilda being driven very slowly by an old lady. He shoves the teenager in front and holds a gun to their heads while ordering the old lady to head out of town. Thus this unlikely trio begin a zig-zag cross-country escapade filled with funny, witty and provocative conversation. As if each wild and exciting experience on the road is not enough, the teenager reads aloud from a novel belonging to the old lady to relieve boredom on the road. But beware. The journey isn’t just a wild adventure. In the end you will, as Cogan warns, wonder “what is real and what is fiction? Can a novel change the story of your life?” –Evelyn Wolfson, author of A First Look At History: Native Americans, Growing Up Indian, From Abenaki to Zuni: A Dictionary of Native American Tribes, Hot Flashes from Abroad: Women Travel Tales and Adventures.
If you read the first half dozen or so pages in this book of the bank robbery gone awry, the collection of a pair of the most unlikely hostages and the escape in the ancient pale blue Dodge Dart, you'll be hooked. Then as the story develops where the two hostages are reading a romance novel you find amidst the laughter that there's an underlying story of how a book (the romance novel) affects the lives of the characters in the outside novel. But within the story the humor keeps up, even until I laughed out loud at the last paragraph in the book. This book is published by a small press who unfortunately won't have the marketing muscle to promote it to the best seller lists, but it certainly deserves to be there. I'd also call upon someone in Hollywood to pay attention to this one.
–Publisher Review
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