Kissing in Manhattan - Hardcover

Schickler, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385335660 ISBN 13: 9780385335669

Verlag: Dial Pr, 2001

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Book by Schickler David

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At the Preemption, a mysterious apartment building with a prophetic doorman named Sender, the destinies of an offbeat group of tenants intertwine with the lives of three characters--James Branch, a shy accountant attached to the building's antique elevator; Wall Street lothario Patrick Rigg; and Rally McWilliams, an aspiring writer searching for a soulmate. A first novel. 55,000 first printing.

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exy, and deeply tender, Kissing in Manhattan follows a troupe of love-hungry urbanites through a charmed metropolis and into the Preemption -- the mythic Manhattan apartment building readers first discovered when The New Yorker debuted David Schickler's stunning short story "The Smoker."

Now, in Schickler's eagerly anticipated first book, 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 attendi

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• Verlag: Dial Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385335660
• ISBN 13: 9780385335669
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274