Pocket Review: The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats by Hesh Kestin ...

The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats Hesh Kestin Dzanc Books, 2009 I fell in love with this book before I ever owned it. First of all, that title: The Iron Will. ... He's an autodidact, a dese-dem-and-dose guy with a secret library in his swank hotel suite. He steals lines from F. Scott Fitzgerald, quotes de la Rochefoucauld to the cops, and references the “seventeen fucking accents and dialects” in Huckleberry Finn. And because Russell is a budding scholar himself, ...