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02939aam a2200373 i 4500 001 D4531D44141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 231027s2024 iau 000 f eng 010 $a 2023029352 020 $a 1609389417 020 $a 9781609389413 035 $a (OCoLC)1407214775 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3606.I3275 $b A88 2024 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20231027 100 1 $a Fiedorek, Cally, $d 1988- $e author. 245 10 $a Atta boy / $c Cally Fiedorek. 263 $a 2405 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 259 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "As much a crime comedy as coming-of-age tale, this pitch-perfect evocation of pre-Covid New York captures the dark side of the American dream in all its graft and glitter. In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens in the throes of a major quarter-life (if he's lucky) crisis. Cut off from the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment building, where he comes under the wing of the family in 4E, the Cohens. Jacob, their fast-talking patriarch, is one of a generation of moneylenders who made hundreds of millions of dollars in the cutthroat taxi medallion industry in the early 2000s, largely by preying on the hopes and dreams of impoverished immigrant drivers. As Jake tries to stop the bleed from the debt crisis now plaguing his company, clawing back his assets from an increasingly dangerous coterie of Russian-American associates, Rudy goes from errand boy to bodyguard to something like Jake's right-hand man, drawn closer into the world of his neglected son, J. J., his glamorous, unhappy wife, Nora, and his sheltered but perceptive adolescent daughter, Marley, who provides the novel's beating heart. When Marley becomes involved with the son of a rival taxi mogul, Jake's dirty laundry comes to light, and Rudy must choose between his blue-collar conscience and white-collar ambitions. By turns a gripping portrait of corruption and a tender family dramedy, Atta Boy combines the urban cool of Richard Price with the glossy, uptown charm of Taffy Brodesser-Akner"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $x Social life and customs $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 710 2 $a University of Iowa Press, $e donor. $e donor. $5 IaU 776 08 $i Online version: $a Fiedorek, Catherine Thorburn, 1988- $t Atta boy $d Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2024 $z 9781609389383 $w (DLC) 2023029353 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012254.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D4531D44141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search