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“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.”
–The Washington Post Book World
One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit...
–The Washington Post Book World
One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit...
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Stingo, a young southerner, who journeyed north in 1947 to become a writer becomes intellectually and emotionally entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house. Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and his lover, Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman whose wrist bears the grim tattoo of a concentration camp ... and whose past is strewn with death that she alone survived.
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"In [the] 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a modern man--who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety, who is drawn to women, yet has a habit of letting them down"--Dust jacket flap.
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Zack King is having second thoughts about his up-coming marriage, is haunted by the dead of his best friend two years previous, and infatuated with his friend's beautiful widow, Tamara; and when his overbearing father, Norm, reappears after twenty years, Zack decides it's time to make some changes himself.
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Sixteen-year-old Bert Rosenbaum is living in the Bronx with his family when his brother, Philip, has his first psychotic breakdown. Philip communicates with extraterrestrials through radio stations only he can hear, discovers a homosexual plot to control the world, and burns Bert's cherished Dylan albums to protect him from evil subliminal messages.
Haunted by the shadow of his brother's madness, Bert graduates from college, lands a job in the Department...
14) Big banana
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Young Honduran actor Eduardo Lin has just come to New York City to pursue his thespian dreams. Driven by delusions of grandeur, he is soon dubbed "The Big Banana." While he works in construction to get by, he dreams of being discovered by Woody Allen. Meanwhile, his fiancée back home--who Eduardo met when hired to act out her James Bond fantasies--is getting lonely.
"Eduardo Lin, actor, albañil y soñador, odia a New York Telephone. Busca en ser...
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