{"product_id":"atta-boy-9781609389413","title":"Atta Boy","description":"\u003cb\u003ePEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel 2025, Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Vulture Best Book of 2024 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 Jake's right-hand man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By turns a gripping portrait of corruption and a tender family dramedy, \u003ci\u003eAtta Boy\u003c\/i\u003e 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 everyone--high-wire prose and a story wedding ripped from the headlines, social realism with the warmth, angst, and humor of its indelible voices. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cally Fiedorek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.54w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609389413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCally Fiedorek\u003c\/b\u003e is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Center for Fiction. She lives in New York City. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43169214890099,"sku":"9.78161E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b07db90b-ea13-433b-b8b7-d96e8df6e1dd.jpg?v=1751460957","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/atta-boy-9781609389413","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}