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4771040Atta Boyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/atta-boy-9781609389420/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4188845/image.jpg?v=638472702103630000281390MXNUniversity of Iowa PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel 2025, Longlist</strong><br /><strong>A Vulture Best Book of 2024</strong></p><p>In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owners son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment building, where he comes under the wing of the family in 4E, the Cohens.</p><p>Jacob Jake Cohen, the fast-talking patriarch, is one of a generation of financiers who made hundreds of millions of dollars in the cutthroat taxi medallion industry in the early 2000s, largely by preying on the hopes and dreams of impoverished immigrant drivers. As Jake tries to stop the bleed from the debt crisis now plaguing his company, clawing back his assets from an increasingly dangerous coterie of Russian American associates, Rudy gets promoted from doorman to errand boy to bodyguard to something like Jakes right-hand man.</p><p>By turns a gripping portrait of corruption and a tender family dramedy, <em>Atta Boy</em> combines the urban cool of Richard Price with the glossy, uptown charm of Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Here is a novel richly attuned to its time and place, but with something for everyonehigh-wire prose and a story wedding ripped from the headlines, social realism with the warmth, angst, and humor of its indelible voices.</p>...4561236Atta Boy281390https://www.gandhi.com.mx/atta-boy-9781609389420/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4188845/image.jpg?v=638472702103630000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781609389420_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9781609389420_<p>In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owners son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment building, where he comes under the wing of the family in 4E, the Cohens.</p><p>Jacob Jake Cohen, the fast-talking patriarch, is one of a generation of financiers who made hundreds of millions of dollars in the cutthroat taxi medallion industry in the early 2000s, largely by preying on the hopes and dreams of impoverished immigrant drivers. As Jake tries to stop the bleed from the debt crisis now plaguing his company, clawing back his assets from an increasingly dangerous coterie of Russian American associates, Rudy gets promoted from doorman to errand boy to bodyguard to something like Jakes right-hand man.</p><p>By turns a gripping portrait of corruption and a tender family dramedy, <em>Atta Boy</em> combines the urban cool of Richard Price with the glossy, uptown charm of Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Here is a novel richly attuned to its time and place, but with something for everyonehigh-wire prose and a story wedding ripped from the headlines, social realism with the warmth, angst, and humor of its indelible voices.</p>...9781609389420_University of Iowa Presslibro_electonico_9781609389420_9781609389420Cally FiedorekInglésMéxico2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-037b2b4a-5293-4124-ad78-6a89d5107643.epub2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00University of Iowa Press