Angel baby a novel
To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his perfect, obedient wife. |
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| Physical Description: | 288 p. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780316219822 0316219827 |
| Author Notes: | Richard Lange is an American writer born in Oakland, CA. After receiving a degree in film from the University of Southern California, he traveled to Europe and taught English for Berlitz in Barcelona, Spain. Returning to Los Angeles, he was hired as a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications and eventually became managing editor of RIP, a heavy-metal music magazine. He later edited textbooks before becoming managing editor of Radio & Records, a radio-industry trade magazine. Lange is the author of the novels Angel Baby, which is a finalist for the 2014 Hammett Prize and made Hachette's List of Summer Titles for 2014. He also wroteThis Wicked World and the short story collection Dead Boys. A new collection, Sweet Nothing, will be out in February 2015. He has published short stories in various literary journals. "Bank of America" was selected for Best American Mystery Stories of 2004 and "Baby Killer" for Best American Mystery Stories of 2011. Lange was the 2008 recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a finalist for the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. (Bowker Author Biography) |
