E-Books →Eugene Nadelman A Tale of the 1980s in Verse

-Liel Leibovitz, editor at large, Tablet Magazine
"[A] wistful and emotionally resonant novel that finds true poetry in teenage life."
-Foreword Reviews
Full of humor, pathos, and pop cultural references, Eugene Nadelman is a tale of young love and American manners in the era of Ronald Reagan and MTV-written in the witty sonnet form of Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
It's 1982, and teenaged Eugene attends his cousin's bar mitzvah in suburban Philadelphia. There he meets a kindred spirit in the savvy, sensitive Abigail. But when Eugene's best friend also becomes smitten with Abby, a tragic rivalry ensues and, just as in the Pushkin poem, one character kills another in a duel. (Well, in a Dungeons & Dragons game, in this case.)
Eugene and Abby's romance deepens against a backdrop of '80s music, fashion, and VHS rentals-with serious world events like AIDS and the Cold War hovering overhead. But when Eugene leaves for sleepaway camp and Abby for Europe, temptations abound, and one question becomes paramount: can their love survive a summer separation?