Lost Legends of New Jersey

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Paperback
2001
$19.98

A poignant and magical coming-of-age story Over 20,000-copies sold in hardback. 50,000-copy first printing; It's the early 1980s and the suburban streets are filled with Bruce Springsteen-era teenagers searching for answers...In The Lost Legends of New Jersey, Rick Reiken show us how magic can arise within the ordinary lives of struggling families and everyday people. In this rich, resonant tale filled with joy as well as heartbreak. Reiken reminds us that when good literature comes along, it feels like true love itself, as if something legendary is occurring.

Synopsis

A poignant and magical coming-of-age story Over 20,000-copies sold in hardback. 50,000-copy first printing; It's the early 1980s and the suburban streets are filled with Bruce Springsteen-era teenagers searching for answers...In The Lost Legends of New Jersey, Rick Reiken show us how magic can arise within the ordinary lives of struggling families and everyday people. In this rich, resonant tale filled with joy as well as heartbreak. Reiken reminds us that when good literature comes along, it feels like true love itself, as if something legendary is occurring.

$19.98

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: 1st Harvest Ed
Publisher: Roundhouse Publishing
Published: 18 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0156010941
ISBN 13: 9780156010948

Media Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE ODD SEA
The mixture of the grisly and metaphysical that Reiken works so effectively keeps you spellbound by The Odd Sea until its very last page. -The New York Times
The story has a dark, dreamlike quality, and author Reiken tells it with no melodrama, nor any word out of place. -Time

PRAISE FOR THE ODD SEA
The mixture of the grisly and metaphysical that Reiken works so effectively keeps you spellbound by The Odd Sea until its very last page. -The New York Times
The story has a dark, dreamlike quality, and author Reiken tells it with no melodrama, nor any word out of place. -Time

PRAISE FOR THE LOST LEGENDS OF NEW JERSEY
Deeply romantic, funny and tragic . . . Explores how more often than not we are the forces that get in the way of finding our true loves. -Bliss Broyard, The Washington Post book world
Elegiac and unsparingly direct, funny and poignant . . . A beautiful story of loss, hope and survival. -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A wonderful, wonderful, book . . . It is the story of parents and children and strange bonds between them. -The Philadelphia Inquirer