The Hardship Bazaar - by Jeremy Resnick (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>When Jack Waxman goes missing, his elderly father Donald and depressed daughter Sam team up to find him. While their bumbling quest takes them all over Los Angeles, Jack finds himself adrift, at risk of losing his whole life. Come for the satirical hardboiled detective story. Stay for the mythopoetic adventures and hilarious meditations on ethics.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When professional ethicist Jack Waxman goes missing, his elderly father, Donald, takes the case. Donald thinks he's a hardboiled private detective, but he's just a retired writer of films and TV shows about hardboiled detectives. Jack's depressed daughter Samantha joins in the search, mainly to make sure Grandpa Donald doesn't hurt himself. Together they scour Los Angeles for leads, confronting past mistakes and making plenty of new ones. In the course of their quest, Sam struggles to achieve something like adulthood, and Donald struggles to reconcile fantasy and reality. </p><p>But where is Jack Waxman? Also, who, really, is Jack Waxman? </p><p>A degraded Odysseus for a degraded world, Jack finds himself adrift, at risk of losing his reputation, his family, and even his life. If he's going to survive, and do it with his soul intact, he has to overcome his deepest fears. </p><p>Jack's story, entwined with Sam and Donald's, is a gripping comic adventure, but it's also a meditation on how one ought to live in a world that's falling apart.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Incisive, witty, and generous, Resnick's first novel is a comedic guillotine. Buy it for the laughs, read it for the cultural beheadings."</p><p>--David Andrew Stoler, writer, producer, professor</p><p> </p><p>"A beautiful book! Great characters, and gripping plot. Anyone would be lucky to read this book, and they'd be crazy not to love it!" --Linda Resnick, mother</p><p> </p><p>"Haven't read it yet, but I hear it's very good." </p><p>--Jeffrey Resnick, father</p><p> </p><p>"It's really good. I forgot to finish it for totally unrelated reasons." </p><p>--Karen Callahan, spouse, eventual finisher</p><p> </p><p>"It's not the novel we need, but it's the one we deserve."</p><p>--Adam Friedman, otolaryngologist</p><p> </p><p>"Get back to me when it's a movie." </p><p>--Zev Brown, nephew</p><p> </p><p>"You're weird, but I love you." </p><p>--Avi Brown, niece</p><p> </p><p>"A <em>literal </em>page-turner." </p><p>--Elise Choi, copy editor</p><br>
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