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About the Book

Renowned humorist Bill Scheft stretches comedic singles into stand-up triples through the oddest of couples in this hilarious debut novel.Morton Martin Spell, a once-brilliant, now-infirm seventy-five-year-old writer has begun to slide into a state of 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 terminally unambitious 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 once-a-week gig as an in-studio laugher on a drive-time morning radio show.) Not only that, The Dirt King, a small-time gangster who controls all the replacement soil in Central Park, is after him. 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.

About the Author :
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.

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A moving story about love between wounded souls that will linger in the mind far longer than the laughs. --Bruce McCall" Bill Scheft has written a delightful first novel....The Ringer is a funny, big-hearted book. --Tom Perrotta" Bill Scheft s novel produces the kind of explosive laughs that can create an unsanitary condition. --Jeffrey Toobin" Damn funny, and ultimately moving. Four stars. --Maxim" Funny, insightful, and profound....I m outraged. --Larry David" Has to be the summer s funniest novel....Fast moving fiction at its swiftest. --Trenton NJ Times" Scheft keeps the material coming at machine-gun pace....the jokes are plentiful and very high in quality. --New York Times Book Review" "A moving story about love between wounded souls that will linger in the mind far longer than the laughs."--Bruce McCall "Bill Scheft has written a delightful first novel....The Ringer is a funny, big-hearted book."--Tom Perrotta "Bill Scheft's novel produces the kind of explosive laughs that can create an unsanitary condition."--Jeffrey Toobin "Damn funny, and ultimately moving. Four stars."--Maxim "Funny, insightful, and profound....I'm outraged."--Larry David "Has to be the summer's funniest novel....Fast moving fiction at its swiftest."--Trenton NJ Times "Scheft keeps the material coming at machine-gun pace....the jokes are plentiful and very high in quality."--New York Times Book Review "Damn funny, and ultimately moving. Four stars." -- Maxim ?Bill Scheft's novel produces the kind of explosive laughs that can create an unsanitary condition.?Jeffrey Toobin?A moving story about love between wounded souls that will linger in the mind far longer than the laughs.?Bruce McCall?Bill Scheft has written a delightful first novel....The Ringer is a funny, big-hearted book.?Tom Perrotta?If you don?t enjoy this book, there is something wrong with you.?--Dave Letterman?Funny, insightful, and profound....I?m outraged.?Larry David?Damn funny, and ultimately moving. Four stars.?Maxim?Has to be the summer's funniest novel....Fast moving fiction at its swiftest.?Trenton NJ Times


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780060090524
  • Publisher: Harper
  • Publisher Imprint: Harper
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0060090529
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jul 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 408 gr


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