Richard Lange, Author . Little, Brown $21.99 (241p) ISBN 978-0-316-01736-7
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et in a Southern California of smoky skies and Neil Young tunes, Lange's fine debut collection takes the so-called normal guy—husband, father, working stiff—and throws a heap of trouble at him. “Bank of America” is the
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Richard Lange, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (401p) ISBN 978-0-316-01737-4
Set in L.A., Lange's visceral, hard-hitting first novel puts him squarely in the ring with the best young neo-noir writers. Jimmy Boone, a former Marine and ex-con lying low and waiting out his probation by tending bar on Hollywood Boulevard,...
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Richard Lange. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-21982-2
The rambling plot of Lange’s second crime novel will remind many of the work of Elmore Leonard. Desperate to escape her life as the caged mistress of violent Mexican drug lord Rolando, Luz plans carefully and waits for her moment. Preparation and...
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Richard Lange. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-32754-1
Gamblers, grifters, ex-cons, and those just conning themselves populate this gritty if uneven L.A.-centric second story collection from the author of the Hammett Prize–winning novel Angel Baby (2013). Marginalized types barely manage to scrape by,...
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Richard Lange. Mulholland, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-32762-6
Career con artist Rowan Petty has run out of luck in this gritty, poignant crime novel from Hammett Prize–winner Lange (Angel Baby). Living out of a hotel in Reno, Nev., Petty is down to his last five grand and trying to stay afloat working various...
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Richard Lange. Mulholland, $29 (272p) ISBN 978-0-31656-847-0
Lange’s excellent latest (after Rovers) revolves around 40-year-old Joe “Hustle” Howard, an ex-Marine and ex-con wrestling with past traumas as he bounces between jobs and temporary living situations in L.A. While painting a house one afternoon, Joe
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