Richard Lange
Richard Lange was born in Oakland, CA and grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley. He's the author of the novels Angel Baby and This Wicked World and the short story collections Sweet Nothing and Dead Boys. His short stories have appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review and Best American Mystery...
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Richard Lange was born in Oakland, CA and grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley. He's the author of the novels Angel Baby and This Wicked World and the short story collections Sweet Nothing and Dead Boys. His short stories have appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review and Best American Mystery Stories, and as part of the Atlantic Monthly's Fiction for Kindle series. He received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Publication Date: Available Now from Mulholland Books. Source: Bookbridgr These are edge-of-your-seat tales: A prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes. A father and son set out to rescue a young couple trapped during a wildfire. An ex-con trying to make good as a secur...
The human thing is all an act. He can turn it on and off like that. What he is inside is a monster, a shark, something soulless and ravenous. When i first started reading this I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. I haven't read many books about Mexican drug cartels and drug lords so I didn't kn...
Eww, I took my time with this book, no idea why. It was supposed to be a quick read.I liked the slapstick style, the present tense narration made the plot dynamic and fast.
It's a short story collection, set mostly in the L.A. area. Men are the protagonists - down-on-their-luck men, flawed men, struggling men. There are women too - women who care and women who won't, women who have it together and women who don't. It's L.A. without the glamor, love without the romance....
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