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Balls: a Novel
Julian Tepper
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Description for Balls: a Novel
paperback. A New York story, a dark comedy, Balls: A Novel tells of the 30-year-old Henry Schiller, a songwriter and lounge-player, in love with a woman far younger and more musically gifted than himself, one with her eye on other men and the rise of her own career, whose crisis deepens when he discovers he has testicular cancer. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
A New York story, a dark comedy, Balls: A Novel tells of the 30-year-old Henry Schiller, a songwriter and lounge-player, in love with a woman far younger and more musically gifted than himself, one with her eye on other men and the rise of her own career, whose crisis deepens when he discovers he has testicular cancer.
A New York story, a dark comedy, Balls: A Novel tells of the 30-year-old Henry Schiller, a songwriter and lounge-player, in love with a woman far younger and more musically gifted than himself, one with her eye on other men and the rise of her own career, whose crisis deepens when he discovers he has testicular cancer.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rare Bird Books United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9781940207032
SKU
V9781940207032
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99-15
About Julian Tepper
New York native Julian Tepper is a man of many talents. As the bass player for the indie rock band The Natural History, he co-wrote Spoon's hit "Don't You Evah" and helped produce the band's two studio albums, Beatbeatheartbeat and The People That I Meet. Tepper is the co-founder of The Oracle Club in Brooklyn, and an actor, best known for his appearance on the CW's Gossip Girl. His writing has appeared in The Daily Beast, Paris Review and Kindling Quarterly. Balls is his first novel.
Reviews for Balls: a Novel
"My only regret is that I didn't write this novel myself. Balls is hilarious and beautifully written. Really, a beautiful read ... with a real New York sensibility."
Tony Roberts, star of Woody Allen's Annie Hall and Sidney Lumet's Serpico "Balls is a lost and found of youth, love, creativity, and New York life. With humor and angst, keeping things secretly within and letting a few out, Henry Schiller is its embodiment, and it is his body parts and nervous system that give the book its title and its consciousness. Julian Tepper, writing his first novel, will remind you of others who began their great careers with such a character and dilemma, but he will also strike you as surely original in just how he makes it all so, well, ballsy."
Steven Isenberg, former publisher of New York Newsday "Julian Tepper has summoned a voice that is strangely familiar and also exotic: a voice from the old country, redolent of Bruce J. Friedman. It's like Mad Men with Jews. And balls. Delightful."
Thomas Beller, Founder of Open City and author of How to Be a Man
Tony Roberts, star of Woody Allen's Annie Hall and Sidney Lumet's Serpico "Balls is a lost and found of youth, love, creativity, and New York life. With humor and angst, keeping things secretly within and letting a few out, Henry Schiller is its embodiment, and it is his body parts and nervous system that give the book its title and its consciousness. Julian Tepper, writing his first novel, will remind you of others who began their great careers with such a character and dilemma, but he will also strike you as surely original in just how he makes it all so, well, ballsy."
Steven Isenberg, former publisher of New York Newsday "Julian Tepper has summoned a voice that is strangely familiar and also exotic: a voice from the old country, redolent of Bruce J. Friedman. It's like Mad Men with Jews. And balls. Delightful."
Thomas Beller, Founder of Open City and author of How to Be a Man