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  • Ride the Tyger
    David Perlstein
    This page-turning 'oral biography' explores the roots of today’s far-right American politics from the Depression through McCarthyism.Madison Hadder’s smalltown childhood before and after the Great War torments him with an abusive father and numerous family traumas. In the 1930s, Madison becomes a union organizer and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt. Disillusioned, he tumbles dow...
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    27,16 €

  • TAKING STOCK
    David Perlstein
    In this gripping novel of loss and regret, Steve Goldman, about to turn 80, has just buried his wife Evelyn. Alone in his San Francisco home, he ponders his future, wonders if loneliness awaits him as a widower. For that matter, will he want to share his remaining years with another woman? If so, will he be worthy? Steve undergoes the challenging process of taking stock of his ...
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    19,87 €

  • The Short (Pun Intended) Redemptive Life of Little Ned
    David Perlstein
    Early in the twentieth century, three children of poor Jewish immigrants stagger beneath the grueling promise of the American Dream. Nate Cohen, the pint-size, angry son of an alcoholic San Francisco prizefighter and Bohemian mother, becomes a parttime criminal. Working at a restaurant, he hurls bacon grease at an anti-Semitic employee and flees the city. As Ned Christianson, h...
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    29,01 €

  • Lola Flores
    David Perlstein
    The hottest female nightclub star in 1930s Havana guards two secrets: She is a Polish-born American Jew, and she has a penis. Lola Flores, a musically gifted transgender woman, lives in constant fear of discovery while battling inner demons. Days before the 1929 Wall Street crash, 19-year-old pianist Albert Sobel fakes drowning in New York’s East River. As Lola Torres, she ri...
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    23,85 €

  • Big Truth
    David Perlstein
    An astronaut turning eighty suffers a disturbing encounter. A hard-charging lawyer levitates. Satan makes a cruel wager with God. America bans stand-up comedy. Thus begins a journey toward self-discovery, concluding with four childhood friends taking a road trip fifty years after the last time they were all together and laying their relationships bare.Twenty-five stories set in...
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    11,01 €

  • The Odd Plight of Adonis Licht
    David Perlstein
    The Odd Plight of Adonis Licht Perception and reality collide in a dark, witty fable combining a reversal of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis with overtones of Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There. Adonis Licht, a nondescript museum art curator, is a loner whose closest friend is a mute bag lady shrouded in black. After sleeping four straight days, Adonis awakens to find himself handsom...
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    10,80 €

  • FLIGHT OF THE SPUMONIS
    David Perlstein
    What drives a 13-year-old trapeze artist to run away from the circus? Marco Spolini seeks freedom from an overbearing father, critical stepmother and smothering uncle. A journey of discovery takes him from New York to Los Angeles across a 1980 America beset by economic and political frustration.Accompanied by a 15-year-old multiracial street kid named Jimmy Q and hunted by a re...
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    17,75 €

  • The Boy Walker
    David Perlstein
    Brute Greenbaum faces challenges beyond those of ordinary 12-year-olds. Faded hearing. Dimming eyesight. Bad hips. A penchant for farting. They’re normal for an English Bulldog equivalent to a human centenarian and pursued by the Malach HaMavet-the Angel of Death. But they’re only the beginning. A cantankerous lover of literature, rabinnic wisdom, humor and skateboarding, Brute...
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    13,34 €

  • San Caf
    David Perlstein
    SAN CAFÉ casts a ribald, satirical eye on Latin American leftist politics and American corporate greed. Security consultant Bobby Gatling anticipates a working vacation in the Central American nation of San Cristo. But revolutionaries challenge a government controlled by Bobby’s client, Mobys Inc., the world’s largest coffee retailer.A jungle ambush and the disappearance of an ...
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    13,14 €

  • Slick!
    David Perlstein
    SLICK! skewers Middle East politics and American foreign policy with a barbed humor that will leave you wondering whether to laugh or cry-when you’re not holding your breath. This satiric novel dissects Moq’tar, a Persian Gulf sultanate guided by a Berkeley MBA with grandiose economic plans. Moq’tar faces dangerous instability-and the United States a black eye-during a deadlock...
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    13,18 €

  • God's Others
    David Perlstein
    God's Others: Non-Israelites' Encounters with God in the Hebrew Bible reveals the stories of two-dozen of the 'best-kept secrets' in what is often referred to as the Old Testament-the foundation text for the three Abrahamic faiths. Often overlooked or misunderstood, these non-Israelite individuals and groups encounter God through personal or historic revelations. They include: ...
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    19,72 €

  • God's Others
    David Perlstein
    God's Others: Non-Israelites' Encounters with God in the Hebrew Bible reveals the stories of two-dozen of the 'best-kept secrets' in what is often referred to as the Old Testament-the foundation text for the three Abrahamic faiths. Often overlooked or misunderstood, these non-Israelite individuals and groups encounter God through personal or historic revelations. They include: ...
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    27,34 €