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Description
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.
Author: David Schickler
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 08/27/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.53w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780385335676
ISBN10: 0385335679
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Urban & Street Lit
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.
Author: David Schickler
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 08/27/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.53w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780385335676
ISBN10: 0385335679
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Urban & Street Lit
About the Author
David Schickler is a graduate of the Columbia M.F.A. program. He lives in New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House and Zoetrope.