Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue
a Novel of Pastry, Guilt and Music
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2006
Summary
A vivid, funny, exuberantly textured debut novel about a tight-knit, ethnically diverse New York neighbourhood on the brink of change.
It’s the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. While he tries to decide whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry chef whose parents may or may not have been Nazis, his father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099477648 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099477645 |
| Author: | Mark Kurlansky |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 265g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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A marvellous debut by any standards… Beautifully done
A marvellous debut by any standards… Beautifully done * Sunday Telegraph *
Witty, hard-edged and mouth-watering. A tightly crafted, vibrant book filled with the romance and hardships of family life, violence, music and butter * I-D *
Rich and compelling. Warm social comedy, period detail and perceptive psychology… Kurlansky writes from the heart and taste-buds * Literary Review *
Whimsical. Kurlansky’s powers of description and humour are abundantly engaging… [An] impassioned, nostalgic, charmingly written novel * Daily Telegraph *
Exuberant…hilarious. Recipes for some of the mouth-watering dishes mentioned in the book provide a satisfactorily eccentric coda to an original New York novel * Good Book Guide *
Just dive in and mind the chocolate * Jewish Chronicle *
About The Author
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky is the bestselling author of Cod- A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (winner of the Glenfidish Best Food Book Award), The Basque History of the World, Salt- A World History, 1968- The Year that Rocked the World and a short story collection The White Man in the Tree. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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