86'd: A Novel
- Authors
- Dan Fante
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Tags
- general , literary , fiction , fiction - general , domestic fiction , self-help , los angeles (calif.) , sales personnel , substance abuse & addictions , limousine services , american contemporary fiction - individual authors + , alcoholics , recovering alcoholics , alcoholism
- ISBN
- 9780061779220
- Date
- 2009-09-08T07:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.32 MB
- Lang
- en
SUMMARY: 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.