Three Lives in New York

This first novel of interconnected stories is about a decisive day for three employees of a troubled real estate company.
The company’s bookkeeper, a reclusive Jewish immigrant, travels alone out of his neighborhood.  The company’s president, a former debutante, realizes the consequences of her kickback scheme. The blunt vice president, a secular Jew, learns to apologize to the woman he loves. Set in the turbulent New York of 1977, the day ends in despair for some, but in peace for others.

Praise for Three Lives in New York

“With its title reminiscent of Getrude Stein, Three Lives in New York is a triumph! I loved the setting during the gritty 1970s (the serial killer Son of Sam is on the loose), the treatment of the Bronx and outer boroughs in relation to Manhattan, Adelman’s wizardry in writing about characters from different ethnic backgrounds, the touching love story between Gartner and Dorie, Natalie’s professional anxiety set against the backdrop of the city’s fiscal crisis, and the Max Arnold story—I adored Max, a rueful Jewish émigré who, in the opening pages of this novel, learns he is about to receive an unexpected inheritance.–J. Bret Maney, City University of New York

“I was surprised by the tears in my eyes when I finished your book. It's excellent. It's such good writing that shows a slice of interconnected New York life, and I particularly liked the cabbies in each section. Quite an achievement to flesh out a whole story and have the different parts dovetail so well. And to have such an atmospheric feel of the real estate company, the streets of Manhattan (and the Bronx) and the lights and bridges of NYC” -- Mara Sokolsky, former columnist for The Forward

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