Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue: A Novel Of Pastry, Guilt, And Music - Softcover

Kurlansky, Mark

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9780345448194: Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue: A Novel Of Pastry, Guilt, And Music

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ISBN 10: 0345448197 ISBN 13: 9780345448194

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2006

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Review:

"An addictive read . . . smart, funny, [and] formidable."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A joyful celebration of a New York neighborhood in the late 1980s . . . [a] lively mix of cultures . . . Kurlansky knows how to make food sexy."
-The New York Times Book Review

"[A] riotous tale . . . a pitch-perfect symbol of culture clash. Alternately sociological and silly, Boogaloo is a hit."
-The Washington Post Book World

"[A] comedy of gentrification . . . a cocktail of Jews, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Poles, Germans and Dominicans, of different eras, music and, above all, foods, clashing and conjoining . . . [Kurlansky] has admirably re-created the texture of the pre-boom neighborhood, with just the right mixture of sweet and tart, tangy and spicy."
-Forward

"Funny . . . poignant . . . spot-on writing."
-San Francisco Chronicle

From the Publisher:

A vivid, funny, exuberantly textured debut novel about a tight-knit, ethnically diverse New York neighbourhood on the brink of change, from the bestselling author of Cod, Salt and 1968.

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