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NYC BOOK AWARD 2010
Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood
Martin Lemelman


NYSL: Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyfriend

This is literary territory familiar to fans of Mordecai Richler and Saul Bellow; what Lemelman brings to it is artistry featuring a fine eye for detail, penmanship nuanced but never watery, and a stylistic fearlessness that can stuff pop art tropes, photography, and naturalism onto the same page.

-Boston Globe


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