Tough Luck
WINNER: Barry Award for Best Paperback OriginalFINALIST: Anthony Award for Best Paperback OriginalMickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help his sick dad. But...
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WINNER: Barry Award for Best Paperback OriginalFINALIST: Anthony Award for Best Paperback OriginalMickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help his sick dad. But Mickey's got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to place bets for him and Angelo keeps losing. As Angelo gets further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be Mickey's too. Now Mickey's got his bookie after him and Angelo's showing him the butt of his pistol rather than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks Mickey to join him on a can't-lose caper, Mickey decides to go along. But, surefire schemes often have a way of backfiring, and this one is sending Mickey into an uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and Mickey have trouble just staying alive.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375727115 (0375727116)
Publish date: January 1st 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Mickey Prada is, in a manner of speaking, a lost soul. He spends his days working in a fish Market in Brooklyn. He longs to begin college and, over the years, has saved a couple of thousand dollars which he has carefully guarded. Mickey is pretty much a lonely guy. He lives with his father, a man i...