86'd: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0061779229 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, September 2009
Working as a limo service's branch manager on the condition that he remain sober, struggling writer Bruno Dante spirals into a series of drinking binges, blackouts, and bouts of depression, during which he must confront the madness of his mind or let his old demons get the best of him. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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<p>In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again. </p>
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