Adam Langer, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-57322-274-7
In Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood in 1979, California Avenue divides the prosperous west side from the struggling east. Langer's brilliant debut uses that divide as a metaphor for the changes that occur in the lives of three...
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Adam Langer, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-57322-324-9
Langer's dense, sprawling follow up to Crossing California
features the same ambitious clutch of high-schoolers on the cusp of Harold Washington's bid for Chicago mayor in 1982. In the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of West Rogers Park,...
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Adam Langer, Author . Random/Spiegel & Grau $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-52205-2
An apartment on West 106th Street (aka Ellington Boulevard) links a disparate group of New Yorkers in this intricate tale of life, love and real estate. Ike Morphy, a rent-controlled tenant at 84 West 106th Street, learns his apartment is being sold
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Adam Langer, Author . Spiegel & Grau $26 (243p) ISBN 978-0-385-52372-1
Novelist Langer (Ellington Boulevard
) remembers his late father, a disabled Chicago radiologist, as brilliant and driven, but also distant and contradictory. For more than 30 years, his father talked about writing a history of the Bonus March,...
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Adam Langer, Author . Random/Spiegel & Grau $15 (259p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6891-3
Langer (Crossing California
) delivers an über-hip caper that pays homage to and skewers the state of publishing and flash-in-the-pan authors. Aspiring writer Ian Minot toils in a New York City diner, enraged because he can't get published.
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Adam Langer. Open Road Media, $16.99 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-4532-9794-0
This playful literary thriller from Langer (The Thieves of Manhattan) about the imperiled state of writers and books in the 21st century suggests Paul Auster's New York Trilogy with a lighter touch. Narrator Adam Langer's quiet existence as a stay-at
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Adam Langer. Bloomsbury, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-63557-806-5
Langer (The Salinger Contract) brilliantly braids 1980s America with the Trump era in his inventive latest. In a 1982 Chicago high school, rumors swirl about the inappropriate sexual conduct of the magnetic and troubled Tyrus Densmore, 43, who is...
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