{"id":33782,"date":"2023-09-15T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33782"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:39:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:39:41","slug":"flipping-boxcars-by-cedric-the-entertainer-kyles-with-alan-eisenstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33782","title":{"rendered":"FLIPPING BOXCARS by Cedric &#8220;The Entertainer&#8221; Kyles with Alan Eisenstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3EE7Nxf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z091523flippingboxcars.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s one I didn&#8217;t see coming.\u00a0 <strong>Cedric <em>\u201cThe Entertainer\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Kyles<\/strong> (with <strong>Alan Eisenstock<\/strong>) has a book coming out on September 19th.\u00a0 It&#8217;s titled <strong>FLIPPING BOXCARS<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lowdown&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first novel from one of the original <em>Kings of Comedy<\/em>, <strong>Cedric <em>\u201cThe Entertainer,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> an engaging and entertaining crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities struggling to get by during the Depression and World War II.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Babe is a charismatic and widely loved man, a gambler with a gift for gab that often gets him out of tricky situations. He\u2019s also a dreamer, something he shares with his patient and loving wife, Rosie. They both yearn for financial stability and see the land they own as insurance for future generations. But when Babe and a few comrades enlist in a scheme that improbably falls apart, he endangers the little security the family has.<\/p>\n<p>On the verge of losing everything, what\u2019s a family man to do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you\u2019re a gambler like Babe, you double down and risk it all for one big score\u2014this time, a plan involving railroad boxcars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Will Babe succeed? Will Rosie continue to support her husband? Are the Feds on to his make-or-break scheme?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FLIPPING BOXCARS is <strong>Cedric <em>\u201cThe Entertainer\u201d<\/em><\/strong> at his most engaging best\u2014a charming, fast-paced novel that pays homage to his beloved grandfather and a generation past, anchored by rich, multi-dimensional characters and oozing with irresistible charm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one I didn&#8217;t see coming.\u00a0 Cedric \u201cThe Entertainer\u201d Kyles (with Alan Eisenstock) has a book coming out on September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34162,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33782\/revisions\/34162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}