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"Sold as is--with all faults--no warranty expresses or implied." Such is the message of the sticker on a used car whose warranty has expired, but it also becomes a poignant metaphor for life. The story unfolds in the mid-1970s--the Cocaine Cowboy days in disco Miami, where Corey Doctoroff is in the grip of a major psychotic episode, after which he enters the weird world of the car business until "something else comes along." As Corey begins to reassemble the pieces of his life, he discovers easy marks, easy money, easy women and an abundance of Jamaican Gold and Bolivian Marching Powder. But his alter ego, however, has a lifelong love affair with philosophy, history and literature. On the car lot, while he operates in the eat-or-be-eaten world, his inner self takes contemplative flight. The clash of these paradigms begs for reconciliation, and becomes Corey's dilemma. Told in two voices: gritty, hard-boiled street smart, contrasted with the intellectual, tender and poetic. Both will lead readers through a profound emotional spectrum that will make this wonderful novel impossible to put down. |
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Reviews and Accolades Corey's ironic, outrageous viewpoint on his distinctly ordinary world
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About the Author Kal Rosenberg is a maverick who got his basic education on the streets of the Bronx. Expelled from several high schools, he eventually graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York, and at age sixty-six received his MFA from Goddard College. His short stories, poetry and social commentary have been widely published. He lives in Gainesville, Florida where he writes, teaches, and irritates most of the community. |
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