Sugar Pop Moon - Florio, John
13,45 €
inkl. MwSt.

Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
payback
7 °P sammeln
  • MP3-CD

Jersey Leo is the quintessential outsider--an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he makes a living as the bartender at a mob-run speakeasy in Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen. Being neither black nor white, he has no group to call his own. His own mother abandoned him as a baby. And his father--a former boxing champ with his own secrets--disapproves of Jersey's work at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters. So when he inadvertently purchases counterfeit moonshine ("sugar pop moon") with his boss's money--a potentially fatal mistake--he must go…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
Jersey Leo is the quintessential outsider--an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he makes a living as the bartender at a mob-run speakeasy in Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen. Being neither black nor white, he has no group to call his own. His own mother abandoned him as a baby. And his father--a former boxing champ with his own secrets--disapproves of Jersey's work at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters. So when he inadvertently purchases counterfeit moonshine ("sugar pop moon") with his boss's money--a potentially fatal mistake--he must go undercover to track down the bootlegger who took him in. The clues lead to Philadelphia, where he runs into a cleaver-swinging madman out for his femurs and a cold-blooded gangster holed up on a Christmas-tree farm. Now with a price on his head in two cities, Jersey seeks help from the only man he can trust, his father. As the two delve into the origins of the mysterious sugar pop moon, stunning secrets about Jersey's past come to light. To ensure his future, Jersey must face his past, even if it means that life will never return to normal.
Autorenporträt
John Florio is the author of the historical crime novels Sugar Pop Moon and Blind Moon Alley. With Ouisie Shapiro, he co-authored the nonfiction books One Nation Under Baseball and One Punch from the Promised Land, as well as the young adult books Doomed and War in the Ring. Florio has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Nation, and ESPN. He holds an MFA from the University of Southern Maine, an MA from New York University, an MBA from St. John's University, and is pursuing doctoral writing studies at the University of Glasgow. Florio is on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA creative writing program at the University of Southern Maine; he and Shapiro are married and live in Brooklyn, NY. >