Author:Mark Kurlansky
It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. While he tries to decide whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry chef whose parents may or may not have been Nazis, his father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighbourhood.
With its ensemble cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue is a comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt.
A marvellous debut by any standards... Beautifully done
—— Sunday TelegraphWitty, hard-edged and mouth-watering. A tightly crafted, vibrant book filled with the romance and hardships of family life, violence, music and butter
—— I-DRich and compelling. Warm social comedy, period detail and perceptive psychology... Kurlansky writes from the heart and taste-buds
—— Literary ReviewWhimsical. Kurlansky's powers of description and humour are abundantly engaging... [An] impassioned, nostalgic, charmingly written novel
—— Daily TelegraphExuberant...hilarious. Recipes for some of the mouth-watering dishes mentioned in the book provide a satisfactorily eccentric coda to an original New York novel
—— Good Book GuideJust dive in and mind the chocolate
—— Jewish ChronicleAn insight bordering on genius
—— Irish TimesMy favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world
—— Nick HornbyA page-turner... Trainspotting gives lies to any cosy notions of a classless society
—— Independent on SundayThe Scottish Celine
—— GuardianOne of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit and force
—— Times Literary SupplementWelsh has certainly described the world surrounding Edinburgh's underground drug movement with a most amazing intimacy
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