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Adam Langer
Full Series List in Order
Related Books
1 - Crossing California (Jun-2004)2 - The Washington Story (Aug-2005)
Book List in Order: 6 titles
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Crossing California
- Jun-2004
- / General Fiction
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Crossing California is a cinematic and unforgettable look at the end of an era, the turning point when the idealism of the sixties gave way to the pragmatism of the eighties.California Avenue, in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, separa...
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The Washington Story
- Aug-2005
- / General Fiction
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In Crossing California, Adam Langer gives us "a rich saga worthy of Philip Roth and Anthony TroRope" (Los Angeles Times), and "the most vivid novel about Chicago since Saul Bellow's Herzog" (Chicago Tribune). In The Washington Story he revisits his e...
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Ellington Boulevard
- Feb-2008
- / General Fiction
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Clarinetist Ike Morphy, his dog Herbie Mann, and a pair of pigeons who roost on his air conditioner are about to be evicted from their apartment on West 106th Street, also known as Duke Ellington Boulevard. Ike has never had a lease, just a handshake...
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The Thieves of Manhattan
- Jul-2010
- / Literary
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An aspiring writer with a low-paying day job at a coffee shop becomes embroiled in an elaborate scheme to create a fake memoir of his own. Ian quickly realizes that fact and fiction can be dangerously intertwined....
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The Salinger Contract
- Sep-2013
- / Literary
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An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world’s most famous authors -- from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger -- to a sinister collector in Chicago Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-r...