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Bookends Bookstore hosted an in-person event with Michael Imperioli Star from The Sopranos and there are Still books Left!

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Ridgewood NJ, Bookends Bookstore hosted an in-person event with Michael Imperioli Star from The Sopranos. The Meet/Greet/Photo-Op/Book Signing Sunday, DECEMBER 11th at 1 pm.

The Emmy-winning actor Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, etc.) brilliantly evokes 1970s New York in this Holden Caulfield–esque debut.

Bookends hasextra signed copies, Great gift idea!

“Imperioli’s first novel is the atmospheric coming-of-age story of sixteen-year-old Matthew, whose mother moves them from Queens to a posh apartment in Manhattan in 1976 . . . Imperioli can definitely write, and he gets high marks for the verisimilitude and empathy that he evokes in this fine crossover novel.”—Booklist, starred review

“An edgy coming-of-age romp set in New York City prominently featuring the ‘character’ of rocker Lou Reed.” —Parade

“The Perfume Burned His Eyes is a deft debut with a poignant epilogue.” —Popmatters

“A coming-of-age tale dashed with relatable angst and humor.” —Entertainment Weekly

Matthew is a sixteen-year-old boy living in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 1976. After he loses his two most important male role models, his father and grandfather, his mother uses her inheritance to uproot Matthew and herself to a posh apartment building in Manhattan. Although only three miles away from his boyhood home, “the city” is a completely new and strange world to Matthew.

Matthew soon befriends (and becomes a factotum of sorts to) Lou Reed, who lives with his transgender girlfriend Rachel in the same building. The artistic-shamanic rocker eventually becomes an unorthodox father figure to Matthew, who finds himself head over heels for the mysterious Veronica, a wise-beyond-her-years girl he meets at his new school.

The novel is written from the point of view of Matthew at age eighteen, two years after the story begins, and concludes with an epilogue in the year 2013, three days after Lou Reed’s death, with Matthew in his fifties.

 

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