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ringer Trade paperback - 2003
by scheft, bill
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- Paperback
This debut novel from David Letterman's monologue writer introduces 35-year-old College Boy, an unambitious hired gun for 13 softball teams. When a small-time gangster who controls all the replacement soil in Central Park comes after him, College Boy takes refuge with Sheila, his uncle's cleaning woman and part-time call girl. And then the story gets weird.
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Details
- Title ringer
- Author scheft, bill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition second edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2003-07-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 694632
- ISBN 9780060512583 / 006051258X
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.3 x 0.68 in (20.29 x 13.46 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Category Fiction - Science Fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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First line
Don't flush too early.
From the rear cover
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.
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Citations
- New York Times, 08/31/2003, Page 16
