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They weren't lying when they said the elevator business has its ups
and downs-just ask Dean Ireland. He keeps getting the shaft, and
though he's only looking for an easy buck and place to get some
studying done when he takes a job as an elevator operator in
Greenwich Village, before long he's unwittingly drawn into the
complex personal lives of the strange people who live there.
Whether it's the art-house snobs on four, the drunken super in a
stupor, the herb-smoking doctor, the long-ago famous French singer,
or the rent-controlled but controlling old women on six, Dean can't
help becoming involved in their lives, lies and secrets, as well as
those of some who live outside the building-Ricky, a counterfeit
goods dealer who works on Eighth Street, and Nikki, a mysterious,
exotic damsel whose disarming good looks mask a dark secret. With
its irreverent tone and sharp, witty dialogue, Slidebox is the kind
of novel you read in one sitting, and leaves you captivated long
afterward.
"Gloryheads" is the alternately funny and tragic portrait of a
smart-but-directionless young man named Dean Ireland and the band
of beautiful losers he roams the streets of South Brooklyn with
nightly; looking for love, sex, drugs...any momentary connection to
be found. When Dean's girlfriend abruptly walks out, it triggers a
series of upheavals that propel him headlong into a life he
could've scarcely imagined just a few months before. Along with
with his ever-present friend Lucas, Dean is ensnared by a world of
street drugs and petty crime. Burning the candle at both ends while
his life crashes down around him, Dean seeks solace in the arms of
Echo, the girl he's convinced was sent from Heaven to save him. But
she doesn't know his little secret. And he doesn't know her's. So
it's only a matter of time before the drugs, the crime, and the
lies conjure up a tsunami of bad karma that not only threatens to
destroy the lives of Dean and those around him...it just might kill
them altogether.
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