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Personal drama, eternal values, death threats, racial confrontation, and a different kind of love story—all woven into the fabric of New York. This smart, stylish novel is Thomas Hauser's most ambitious fiction to date and effectively cements his reputation as a prominent critic of institutionalized racism. The narrator is Jeffrey Harper, a street-savvy columnist for a New York City newspaper. Finding The Princess is the story of Jeff's life. It's a tale of racial confrontation between the police and the black community in New York. It's a commentary on eternal values. And it's a different kind of love story. Hauser's background as a writer of prize-winning non-fiction gives this novel its realism. But it's his gift for discerning what makes people tick that give his characters life. Finding The Princess is a book rich in texture, strong character portraits, and exciting plot twists. It's filled with saucy strippers, morally bankrupt politicians, depraved siblings, and winsome writers. It offers the intrigue of a thriller but with a generous helping of social commentary and romance. The result is a wry but discerning look at life in contemporary American society by a writer whose previous fiction has received much praise as "first-class entertainment" by The New Yorker and "a thriller for thinkers" by the New York Times. Once again, as the New York Times wrote of this author's most recent novel, "Mr. Hauser has written a winner." Praise for Thomas Hauser: "What I like most about Hauser's writing is his ability to hide surprises and blindside the reader just when he thinks he knows where the story is going." —Jay Searcy, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Incomparable and indispensible." —The New York Times "Hauser's reconstruction of events reads like a Hitchcock thriller." —Los Angeles Times "Hauser has earned a storm of bravos." —New York Daily News "First class entertainment." —The New Yorker
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Finding
The Princess