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Funny Boys by Warren Adler [Adler, Warren] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Funny Boys about?

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USAFrom Publishers WeeklySet mostly in the Borscht Belt, Adler's satiric take on 1930s New York gangsters falls short of the mark set by such other novels of his as The War of the Roses. Mickey Fine, an itinerant entertainer known as a tumler, has landed a gig at a Catskill hotel frequented by some of the leading thugs of the day. He falls for Mutzie Feder, a frustrated young woman from Brooklyn who's ended up as the girlfriend of Pittsburgh Phil Strauss (aka Pep) after a makeover so she looks like Jean Harlow. As Fine's feelings for Mutzie grow, he runs afoul of the jealous Pep and must develop a plan to free her from the life of prostitution the gangster has planned for her. At times Adler overdoes the Brooklynese dialogue (Certain tings make me crazy. Like sweet liddle canaries who can't keep der lips clamped shut), while some readers may find the parodic element makes it hard to engage emotionally with the characters. (Mar.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistTwo naïfs meet at a resort in the Catskills in the 1930s. Mickey is looki

Who reads Funny Boys?

Author

Warren Adler [Adler, Warren]

Publisher

Penguin

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061353208

Category

history

Subjects

Games, Literary Fiction, Anthropology

Rating

2.79 / 5 (87 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14