Noogie's Time to Shine - Softcover

Knipfel, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753512831 ISBN 13: 9780753512838

Verlag: Virgin Books, 2007

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Book by Knipfel Jim

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Ned "Noogie" Krapczak grew up in rough circumstances in Jersey City where movies and dreams of becoming a filmmaker were his only escape. But by the time he turns 30, things aren't working out the way they were supposed to. Instead of making movies, Noogie has a job restocking ATM machines in delis and drugstores. One day he sees a way out of it all in the form of a slow-motion heist, siphoning $20 bills a few at a time out of the machines he is supposed to be filling. When his scheme is finally uncovered, he hits the road with his Siamese cat, Dillinger, and 350 pounds of $20 bills, totaling nearly $5 million. In that instant, Noogie finds himself not watching movies but living them. He's pulled off a great caper and is on the lam cross-country, a life worthy of Edward G Robinson or Steve McQueen. Noogie works his way down the East Coast on this great escape, disguising himself by using the names of characters from some of his favorite movies. In telling the stories of Noogie's final days, Jim Knipfel's novel captures the tragic end of a broken man who, however briefly and unseemly, managed to live the American dream by starring in his own movie.

Biografía del autor:

Jim Knipfel, one of America’s most critically acclaimed cult writers, has been praised by The New York Times Book Review for his “wicked black humor” and by Thomas Pynchon for taking readers on “an extraordinary emotional ride.”  He is the author of Ruining It for Everybody (2004), The Buzzing (2003), Quitting the Nairobi Trio (2000) and Slackjaw (1999).  He is a media favorite who has been featured on National Public Radio and 60 Minutes.

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• Verlag: Virgin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0753512831
• ISBN 13: 9780753512838
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256