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Adam Langer
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Adam Langer, the wickedly
funny author of the novels Crossing
California, The Washington Story, and
Ellington Boulevard, has written a book that
is at once a comical literary caper, an
exploration of authenticity and fakery, and
a tribute to books. THE THIEVES OF MANHATTAN
is a novel that examines the lengths some
writers will go to succeed.
Aspiring writer, penniless barista, and
self-described sullen mope, Ian Minot is
perturbed by the literary success of his
Romanian girlfriend. His annoyance turns to
rage as he sees what he believes to be a
fabricated memoir by two-bit thug and music
business hanger-on, Blade Markham, shoot to
the top of the bestseller list. Ian proves
to be an easy mark...
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To his friends, Seymour
Langer was one of the brightest kids to
emerge from Chicago’s Depression-era Jewish
West Side. To his family, he was a driven
and dedicated physician, a devoted father
and husband. But to his youngest son, Langer
was also an enigma: a somewhat distant
figure to whom he could never quite measure
up; a worldly man who never left the city of
Chicago during the last third of his life; a
would-be author who spoke for years of
writing a history of the Bonus March of
1932, when 20,000 World War I veterans
descended on the nation’s capitol to demand
compensation...
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In ELLINGTON BOULEVARD Adam
Langer has produced a witty and totally
original novel about the ups and downs of
life in the wilds of New York’s real estate
jungle. Returning home to Manhattan from his
mother’s funeral in Chicago, unemployed jazz
musician Ike Munson enters his apartment
with his dog Herbie only to find three
strangers in his living room - a slick real
estate broker...
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The Washington Story takes the characters Adam Langer introduced in his
critically acclaimed first novel Crossing California forward in time
into the 1980's, and beyond the boundaries of West Rogers Park, Chicago...
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California Avenue is a
street that forms a boundary separating
classes in the predominantly Jewish
neighborhood of West Rogers Park, Chicago.
This wildly imaginative, brilliantly
conceived and often hilarious first
novel-- part Phillip Roth, part The
Simpson’s -- opens in November 1979 and
ends 444 days later, spanning the Iranian
hostage crisis...
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