It Won't Always be This Great - Softcover

Mehlman, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610881362 ISBN 13: 9781610881364

Verlag: Bancroft Press, 2015

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After a sequence of events leaves him walking home after work, a Long Island podiatrist stumbles over an object on the ground and hurts his ankle. In a moment of anger, he hurls the object, a small jar of horseradish, through the window of a clothing store. So begins our narrator s quirky odyssey into the depths of his own psyche. This very entertaining novel (it should be entertaining: it s written by a longtime Seinfeld writer) is a shining example of non-sequential storytelling; the narrator is relating the events of the incident and its aftermath to a friend, but chronologically, he s all over the map, as one thing sparks a memory of something else, and the narrator is suddenly relating an episode that took place years earlier. This isn t as difficult to follow as it might sound in fact, as our podiatrist digs deeper into his story, we begin to see its various threads reaching back into time and realize how the past is connecting to the present. The book is full of questions that don t get answered right away (even the identity of the person to whom the narrator is speaking is clouded in mystery), and it features, like life itself, a story that seems simple enough until you really get into it. This is Mehlman s first novel, and it s wonderful.--BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) "BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) ""

What would the internal monologue of a Long Island podiatrist embroiled in community intrigue sound like if the good doctor had some of the neuroses and self-perception of Seinfeld ? That question a surprisingly entertaining one is what Peter Mehlman explores in his first novel. Mehlman served as an executive producer on Seinfeld and is credited with coining such immortal Seinfeldisms as yada yada and shrinkage. There aren t any catchphrases here, but he has brought sweetly funny family dynamics, with a side of low-stakes Law & Order plot, to life.--WASHINGTON POST, IN NAMING IWABTG 1 OF 5 FUNNIEST AMERICAN BOOKS OF 2014, AND THE ONLY NOVEL "WASHINGTON POST, IN NAMING IWABTG 1 OF 5 FUNNIEST AMERICAN BOOKS OF 2014, AND THE ONLY NOVEL ""

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"In the crushing complacency of suburbia, mid-life crises pop in unannounced on men’s lives. For one Long Island podiatrist, it takes an impromptu act of vandalism just to make him aware of his own being. Walking home in the sub-zero wind chill of a Friday night, he stumbles on a bottle of horseradish and mindlessly hurls it through the window of a popular store selling clothes to over-sexed tweens. This one tiny, out-of-character impulse turns his life upside-down, triggering waves of terrifying fear, crooked cops, and charges of anti-Semitism.The story is told by this same podiatrist, an endearingly wide-eyed and entirely nameless narrator, to what he regards as the perfect audience: a comatose college friend. Yet, our narrator’s most unique quality lies simply in his glowing love for his wife Alyse, the girl of his dreams whom he met in college and still can’t quite believe he managed to marry. She is the mother of his two children, Esme and Charlie, who are just starting to come into their own minds and experiencing their first encounters with prejudice.Prior to the bottle-throwing incident, our narrator had just enough going on in his own life to keep him interested. Now friends and neighbors push his intrigue-filled existence into wildly unpredictable places, especially nineteen year old Audra Uziel, a long-time patient who’s brilliant, rebellious, and sexy, with a taste for happily married men.And oh: Audra also happens to be the daughter of Nat Uziel, self-proclaimed community patriarch whose store window the infamous horseradish bottle demolished. Always on the lookout for anti-Semitism, Nat doesn’t know the true culprit but doesn’t let that stop him from loudly whipping his world into a frenzy, forcing our narrator into hiding in plain sight.Pushed to the edge by his own desires, despairs, and disappointments, our narrator is about to find out what it’s like to become a criminal, and what his crucifyingly dull neighborhood looks like in the midst of continuing controversy.

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• Verlag: Bancroft Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1610881362
• ISBN 13: 9781610881364
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348