The Lost Legends of New Jersey - Hardcover

Reiken, Frederick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151005079 ISBN 13: 9780151005079

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

Synopsis

A second novel by the author of The Odd Sea chronicles the trials and tribulations of teenage life and love in suburban New Jersey as he follows the relationship between Anthony Rubin, a young Jewish teen whose own family is falling apart, and his neighbor, Juliette, the daughter of a reputed Mafioso. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR" THE ODD SEA
"The mixture of the grisly and metaphysical that Reiken works so effectively keeps you spellbound by The Odd Sea until its very last page."-The New York Times
"The story has a dark, dreamlike quality, and author Reiken tells it with no melodrama, nor any word out of place." -Time
PRAISE FOR" THE ODD SEA"
"The mixture of the grisly and metaphysical that Reiken works so effectively keeps you spellbound by The Odd Sea until its very last page."-The New York Times
"The story has a dark, dreamlike quality, and author Reiken tells it with no melodrama, nor any word out of place." -Time
PRAISE FOR" THE LOST LEGENDS OF NEW JERSEY"
"Deeply romantic, funny and tragic . . . Explores how more often than not we are the forces that get in the way of finding our true loves."-Bliss Broyard, The Washington Post book world
"Elegiac and unsparingly direct, funny and poignant . . . A beautiful story of loss, hope and survival."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A wonderful, wonderful, book . . . It is the story of parents and children and strange bonds between them."-The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author:

Frederick Reiken holds a B.A. from Princeton and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine. His first novel, The Odd Sea, was chosen by Booklist as one of the 20 Best First Novels of the Year and won the Hackney Literary Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0151005079
• ISBN 13: 9780151005079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312