Manhattan Meltdown, 40 - (Guernica World Editions) by Frank Lentricchia (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC--each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the city's 5 boroughs. One of the men (white) has come to Manhattan to confront a theater producer who has made a coercive offer to his wife. The other man (black, former All-American football star) plans to confront and take revenge on his white girlfriend from college days--who left him for a white man. As they pursue their goals they are caught up in the hunt for America's most famous criminal. The black man, seeking revenge, makes a surprising turn. The white man, who has taken his confrontation with the theater producer to criminal length, may never leave Manhattan to return to his family. Manhattan Meltdown introduces a series of inter-connected characters who, ever as their lives are impacted by lethal disease, must continue to struggle with more conventional personal crises: uterine cancer, imperiled romantic relationships, and the deteriorations of advancing old age."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC--each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the city's 5 boroughs. One of the men (white) has come to Manhattan to confront a theater producer who has made a coercive offer to his wife. The other man (black, former All-American football star) plans to confront and take revenge on his white girlfriend from college days--who left him for a white man. As they pursue their goals they are caught up in the hunt for America's most famous criminal. The black man, seeking revenge, makes a surprising turn. The white man, who has taken his confrontation with the theater producer to criminal length, may never leave Manhattan to return to his family. <i>Manhattan Meltdown</i> introduces a series of inter-connected characters who, ever as their lives are impacted by lethal disease, must continue to struggle with more conventional personal crises: uterine cancer, imperiled romantic relationships, and the deteriorations of advancing old age.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>This melancholy novella reads like a <em>Law & Order</em> episode ... successfully conjures up a city constricting upon itself and the feeling of asphyxiation it provokes in its characters. An effective one-sitting crime story with an existential bent.</p>--Kirkus Review<br><br><p>Brutal and uncompromising, brilliant and desperate.</p>--Rolling Stone<br><br><p>Frank Lentricchia's new novel ranks as entertainment of a high order - funny, fast-moving and hot-blooded. It's also the kind of novel that will appeal to readers who like their fiction to carry depth and range.</p>--Don DeLillo, author of White Noise<br>
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