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Schmuck, February 2014
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Greenpoint Press
February 2014
On Sale: January 21, 2014
Featuring: Elkin; Fox
248 pages
ISBN: 0988696835
EAN: 9780988696839
Kindle: B00MGCHPDU
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1969. In advertising, there are mad men. On radio, there are
funny men. Tune In….In 1960s New York, radio is king, and Elkin and Fox
are the hottest morning team in town. Jerry Elkin is the
funny half—a genius at dialects and double-talk, zingers and
zany characters. Sinatra flies him to Vegas on his private
plane, and Rocky Graziano drinks with him (and punches him).
But Jerry’s life? That’s no laughing matter. Secretly, he
seethes at his straight-man partner, Ted Fox, a handsome
rake who’d rather shtup a secretary in the studio than
entertain TV offers, a guy who makes Jerry feel less a star
and more a schmuck. Turn On….And that’s before Jerry ever hears the name Sari
Rosenbloom. The stunning eighteen-year-old is a mystical
American dream, irresistible to men—and her most obsessed
admirer is Jake, Jerry’s son. With the 1960s world spinning
out of control, Jake is fighting for a girl who can have
anyone she wants—from the world-famous artist who has
sketched her nude to bon vivant Ted Fox, who’s singing her
name on air. Drop Out….And that’s before Jerry gets a gander at Sari’s
father. Max Rosenbloom works in “salvage”—in other words, he
burns down factories, sells poisoned pajamas to Chinese
children and sometimes buries his enemies in cement. If Jake
doesn’t stop going after his princess daughter, Max might
make Jerry’s son, Jerry’s career and Jerry’s whole post-war
world disappear right off the dial…. Schmuck. A raucous, wild novel of love, war, rioting and
radio that’s as funny as a heart attack and as serious as hell.
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