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Aging rock stars try to recapture their former glory.
HarperCollins
December 2005
304 pages
ISBN: 0060797088
Hardcover
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In Bill Scheft's hilarious second novel, five former
members of a rock band, fast approaching age fifty, try to
overcome their petty feuds and failed (and failing)
marriages to recapture the fading yet distinct tone of their
music and friendships. In 1967, while students at
Chase Academy, the prep-school garage band known as the
Truants recorded a vanity album, Out of Site. Thirty
years later, they discover that a record collector has paid
$10,000 for a rare copy of the disk, and an avid
fan-turned-promoter convinces them to reunite and cash in.
But miles from the horizon of youth, weighted down by
shortsighted choices and mortgaged ambitions, they find
that's not so simple. Richie, a divorce lawyer,
must stop seducing clients with karaoke. John, a
dermatologist, needs to escape the would-be patients who
corner him at parties, sleeves rolled up -- or worse. Tim
must introduce his wife to his drum set, hidden in the attic
the way most guys hide porn. Brian has to desert the thesis
he's been "completing" for twenty-five years. And somebody,
somehow, has to track down Jerry, a hopeless gambler/Equal
addict last seen flying to the Caymans with $1 million taped
to his body. Along the way they encounter a delusional
sister, an anatomically blessed baker, Les Paul, and former
J. Geils Band lead singer Peter Wolf. With his
trademark relentless humor, light and dark, and his
compassion for the second acts of the baby boomer
experience, Bill Scheft follows up his critically acclaimed
debut novel, The Ringer, with another hysterical,
touching look at chaotic lives in search of harmony.
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