Lange's first novel, 'This Wicked World,' tracks some of L.A.'s misfits

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Publication: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Date: 2009-06-28 00:00:00

Richard Lange's Los Angeles is not the stuff of Rodeo Drive or elite nightclubs. It isn't populated by the rich and famous who sit court-side watching the Lakers at the Staples Center, or the tourists who flock to the Hollywood Walk of Fame to fill the handprints of Marilyn Monroe or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Lange's Los Angeles is populated by people who are more likely to have mug shots than passport photos. In his first novel, "This Wicked World," they are people like bartender Jimmy Boone, who at 18 was "running with a hard crowd of wannabe ...

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