Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt and Music

Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt and Music

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It's the boom years ofthe 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travelsoutside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. While hetries to decide whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, aGerman pastry chef whose parents may or may not have been Nazis, hisfather, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vegafor the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addictis terrorizing the neighbourhood.With its ensemble cast of unforgettable characters,Boogaloo on 2nd Avenueis a comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews,Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in arapidly changing world, about food and sex and about how our lives areshaped by love and guilt.
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Name of the Author
Kurlansky
Mark
Language
English
ISBN
9780345448194
Release date
2006

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