Observations on the history and habitat of the citys most unwanted inhabitants. The author speaks with liane hansen about his myriad influences, his love of. The power of mindful learning was originally published in 1997. Crossing california hardcover june 3, 2004 by adam langer author. Adam langer is a journalist, author, playwright and filmmaker.
In a reversal from the standard geographiceconomic measuring stick in the windy citythe closer you are to lake michigan, the richer you arethe north side neighborhood of rogers park starts looking a whole lot nicer once you cross west over california avenue. In chicagos west rogers park neighborhood in 1979, california avenue divides the prosperous west side from the struggling east. Recorded books is the largest independent producer of audiobooks in the world. His work has been featured most recently on nprs selected shorts, in the best mens stage monologues 2000, and the best womens stage monologues 2000, as well as in the chicago readers fiction issue, and in the literary magazine salt hill. Buy crossing california reprint by adam langer isbn. International farmall 140 manual pdf online finneganjacent. George singleton, author of the halfmammals of dixie and these people are us adam langers crossing california carries us at full gallop into the lives and locales of a vivid crew of characters whose plans and failures and yearning hearts seem as real and true as our own. Gretchen worked on the publicity campaigns for these books. Muppet insider chicago magazine chicago guide november 2009. The crossing sixteenyearold billy parham leaves his family ranch in new mexico to take a wolf he has captured back across the border to the mexican hills he believes it came from. Two years, 197981, in the lives of two chicago familiesbut so much more. Adam langer author born and raised in chicago, adam langer is the author of the novels crossing california, the washington story, ellington boulevard, and the thieves of manhattan, and the memoir my fathers bonus march.
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