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Cruising the Green of Second Avenue |
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Written by Walter Giersbach
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
 by Walt Giersbach Daily life was dramatic on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1960s. Klein the Biker, Straight Charlie, Sammy the Madman, Frank and the Chick from Canarsie and a cast of tens romp through the city in the dawning of a new age. Jake, the narrator, delivers artistic distance to these dysfunctional people grasping at the metaphorical magic of hitting every green light on Second Avenue. Their highs and lows are chronicled with humor and insight, elation and sadness. The collection updates a rich heritage of vernacular story-telling in the genre of O. Henry’s Collected Stories, Pulitzer-winner Jimmy Breslin’s The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, and Damon Runyon’s Guys and Dolls.
Genre: Literary Fiction/Short Stories
Book Length: Novella
Price: $4.75
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"A thoroughly enjoyable book, read in one sitting. Too hard to put down. Too hard to accept that it was over when the last page had been read."
5 Champagne Flutes by White Russian
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