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THE SEA BEACH LINE
By: Ben Nadler
Fig Tree Books
October 2015
On Sale: October 19, 2015
Featuring: Izzy Edel; Alojzy
385 pages
ISBN: 1941493084
EAN: 9781941493083
Kindle: B012LMMMN2
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Set in post-Giuliani New York City, The Sea Beach Line melds mid-20th- century pulp fiction and traditional Jewish folklore as it updates the classic story of a young man trying to find his place in the world. After being expelled from Oberlin for hallucinogenic drug use, Izzy Edel seeks out his estranged fatherโa Polish Jew turned Israeli soldier turned New York street vendor named Alojzy who is reported to be missing, possibly dead. To learn about Alojzyโs life and discover the truth behind his disappearance, Izzy takes over his fatherโs outdoor bookselling business and meets the hustlers, gangsters, and members of a religious sect who peopled his fatherโs world. He also falls in love. As Izzy soon discovers, appearances can deceive; no one, not even his own father, is quite whom he seems to be. Vowing to prove himself equal to Alojzyโs legacy of fearlessness, Izzy plunges forward on a criminal enterprise that will bring him answersโat great personal cost. Fans of Jonathan Lethemโs Motherless Brooklyn, Nathan Englanderโs For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and Michael Chabonโs The Yiddish Policemenโs Union will relish to Ben Nadlerโs combined mystery, love story, and homage to text and custom.
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