Price's first book, The Wanderers … was not a great novel, but it was a stunning first novel (and not incidentally the first fiction to bring rock & roll into its characters' lives with the naturalness of Scorsese's Mean Streets). Unfortunately, Bloodbrothers, a sort of Italian working-class Catcher in the Rye, is not even a very good second novel. Eighteen-year-old Stony De Coco is trying to break free of his family and become his own man, but the reader may have to strain to care about the struggle, especially if the reader has already been through The Wanderers. Price has dressed up his earlier themes in new clothes, but that's all…. One would think the only story Price has to tell is that of Sisyphus. The one character who rises out of the book is a girl named Three-Finger Annette, who comes and goes in a few pages; she's who...