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Boogaloo on 2nd avenue

Hardcover • 2005 • English • 1. edition

Boogaloo on 2nd avenue: a novel of pastry, guilt, and music

By Mark Kurlansky

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About the book

It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood. Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing th...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780345448187

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Boogaloo on 2nd avenue

Format

Hardcover

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