The Ringer: A Novel - Couverture souple

Scheft, Bill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006051258X ISBN 13 : 9780060512583

Editeur : Harper Paperbacks, 2003

Synopsis

Morton Martin Spell - a once-brilliant, now-infirm seventy-five-year-old writer - is sliding into delirium. He thinks Mount Sinai Hospital is an exclusive golf course and his catheter is a gym bag. His only link to reality is his thirty-five-year-old nephew, who makes his living as a hired gun for thirteen softball teams and still goes by the name College Boy.

But College Boy's body has begun to betray him - almost as much as his lack of ambition. (His only legitimate paycheck comes from a gig as a laugher on a morning radio show.) Not only that, the Dirt King, a small-time gangster who controls all the replacement soil in Central Park, is after College Boy. As their lives collide, College Boy takes refuge in the arms of Sheila - his uncle's cleaning woman and a part-time call girl.

And then it gets weird.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bill Scheft is the author of The Ringer and The Best of the Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom. He spent eleven years as head monologue writer for David Letterman. He lives in New York City.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Morton Martin Spell -- a once-brilliant, now-infirm seventy-five-year-old writer -- is sliding into delirium. He thinks Mount Sinai Hospital is an exclusive golf course and his catheter is a gym bag. His only link to reality is his thirty-five-year-old nephew, who makes his living as a hired gun for thirteen softball teams and still goes by the name College Boy.

But College Boy's body has begun to betray him -- almost as much as his lack of ambition. (His only legitimate paycheck comes from a gig as a laugher on a morning radio show.) Not only that, the Dirt King, a small-time gangster who controls all the replacement soil in Central Park, is after College Boy. As their lives collide, College Boy takes refuge in the arms of Sheila -- his uncle's cleaning woman and a part-time call girl.

And then it gets weird.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 006051258X
• ISBN 13: 9780060512583
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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