I’m excited to announce that my latest novel, The Uniform, is now available through all online and many bricks-and-mortar bookstores and other outlets.
Here’s some advance praise:
“George Guida’s The Uniform is a powerfully ambitious, sweeping – even epic – novel that snatches you by the lapels from its first incendiary sentence and never relaxes its grip. It’s the story of Alfie Bagliato, a boy who yearns for a better life, as a musician, away from his old world Italian American family. When Alfie’s dream is thwarted, he finds himself in the cauldron of the military, then a New York City cop, strangled by racial violence and his own unresolved bigotry. Guida authenticates with wit and masterfully imaginative, often operatic, prose every syllable he writes. He knows his inimitable characters, the jacked-up rebop and rhythm of the streets they wander. His ear is flawless, his thin-lipped wise-cracking dialogue brilliant. The Uniform is a great big novel – in so many ways – and a wildly intriguing love story in the bargain. Unforgettable!”
–Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate Emeritus & Author of The Act of Contrition
“The most powerful aspect of this novel is the author’s insistence that no one’s life is beyond redemption and that change is always possible, even if dreams never fully translate into reality. Set mostly in Brooklyn during the 1950s and ’60s, the book vividly renders the daily life and values of a particular urban community, and the characters feel real throughout. Readers will gladly travel with Alfie through the sometimes-devastating but always interesting moments of his life. A powerful story of personal failure and reinvention.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“The Uniform, George Guida’s latest imaginative exercise, investigates its fabrics like a crack forensics crew. The fabric of America, no less, both unraveled and patched up: the novel pores over nearly a century of immigrants and their offspring…Guida keeps things lively, freely flashing back and forward in time, and comes up with details well-nigh Proustian. I found the whole compelling and profound, a distinctive portrait of what Guida terms “the lingering effects of peasant cultures” in the American project.”
—The Brooklyn Rail
“These pages are a roundhouse to the jaw of every stock idea that cops are a body, singular in their values and experiences. In The Uniform, the Blue Line is indeed thin, and the other side is a novel-long trip through the eyes of a man who works hard to shape himself. Guida elevates shattering violence to poetry, shows history through the daily grind, and creates a complex protagonist who, like all human heroes, can never put away his past.”
–Adam Berlin and Jeffrey Heiman, Editors, J Journal: New Writing on Justice
“The Uniform is a great dark novel of sharp, bright, often beautiful prose. The writing harkens back to a time when writing was literature. It’s lit by its great energy and intelligence.”
–Anthony Valerio, author of John Dante’s Inferno and Valentino and the Great Italians
George Guida 
