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Portrait of an American childhood: A Long Island Story by Rick Gekoski reviewed

28 July 2018

9:00 AM

28 July 2018

9:00 AM

Success as a rare books dealer, academic, publisher, broadcaster and author of several non-fiction books — at 70, Rick Gekoski had ticked all the boxes. Time to relax, perhaps? Gekoski thought otherwise: he wrote his first novel, published last year, a quirky black farce mutating into a revelation of love and loss.

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