Kissing in Manhattan: StoriesRandom House Publishing Group, 2002 M08 27 - 176 pages Hilarious, sexy, and deeply tender, Kissing in Manhattan was one of the most celebrated debuts in recent years. Acclaimed author David Schickler’s collection of linked stories follows a troupe of love-hungry urbanites through a charmed metropolis and into the Preemption--a mythic Manhattan apartment building. The Preemption sets the stage for a romantic fantasy as exuberant, dark, and dazzling as the city it occupies. Behind closed doors, the paths of an improbable cast of tenants--a seductive perfume heiress; a crabby, misunderstood actor; a preternaturally sharp-sighted priest--tangle and cross, while a perilous love triangle builds around three characters: James Branch, a shy young accountant with an unusual love for the Preemption’s antique elevator, and a strange destiny... Patrick Rigg, a Wall Street lothario who soothes his pain by seducing beautiful women, carrying a gun, and attending the nightly sermons of a foreboding priest... Rally McWilliams, a fetching, hopeful young writer who roams the city at night, searching for the soulmate she believes in but can’t find... Charged with joy and a deadly sense of humor, Kissing in Manhattan is a daring new writer’s vision of a world where men and women, good and evil, love and sex, meet, battle, and embrace on every street corner. |
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Displaced Persons | 13 |
Remember 6000000 | 40 |
First Story | 52 |
Survivors Dance | 60 |
Our Father Our King | 66 |
The Big H | 74 |
Shoah Casanova | 85 |
Trauma Queen | 123 |
Imagine Auschwitz | 132 |
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Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust Gary Weissman Limited preview - 2004 |