Sign-In
Cart
Spillage
Paperback
HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Michael Gross
Published: Feb 14 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It's 1976, and The Big Apple is in sorry shape. Besieged on all sides, the city has become a graffiti-coated, garbage-filled, crime-ridden cauldron, teetering on the edge of total collapse. Adding to New York's towering woes, a revolutionary group called the Satanic Vanguard has kidnapped the mayor, set fire to Coney Island and threatened further mayhem. All that Gotham has to hope for are its resurgent Yankees, who've come back from the dead to reach the World Series by riding the arm of their rookie phenom Nick The Swan Spillage. But Satan and his Vanguard plan to snuff that hope out too, and they've targeted a young couple to help with their diabolical scheme.
The rock and roll-loving pair- Joan and Eliot -came of age in the late 1960s when the counterculture peaked. They've lived together in New York's East Village for eight years, making sweet music on the subways while their beloved city crumbled around them. Then, in shades of the Faustian musical Damn Yankees, Joan develops an obsession with The Swan and makes a deal with the Devil to capture his heart. Meanwhile, Eliot wrestles with what it means to preserve his own soul as he makes a valiant effort to win her back and save the day.
Spillage is a wickedly fun throwback to a chaotic time. At its heart, the novel is a love story and a search for identity in a world that's gone off the rails.
Michael Gross began writing Spillage in 1976, the year the story takes place, while working as Managing Editor of Fiction magazine, teaching, and earning his MFA at New York's City College. He also has a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from NYU, and was the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. In 1978, he embarked on a forty-five-year career in crisis communications, culminating in his serving as CEO of Finsbury (now FGS Global). He is married, has three children and three grandchildren, and divides his time between Brooklyn and Fire Island.
Also from
Gross, Michael
Treasured Island: The Story of St. Barth . . . and Its Barbarians, Billionaires, and Beauties
Gross, Michael
Hardcover
The Complete Guide to Option Selling: How Selling Options Can Lead to Stellar Returns in Bull and Bear Markets, 3rd Edition
Gross, Michael
Cordier, James
Hardcover
Flight of the Wasp: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
Gross, Michael
Audio Book
I Lost $25 Attempting to Make a Profit From This Book by Working From Home! And You Can Too!
Gross, Michael
Paperback
Flight of the Wasp: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
Gross, Michael
Audio Book
Treasured Island: The Story of St. Barth . . . and Its Barbarians, Billionaires, and Beauties
Gross, Michael
Audio Book
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972 (Loa #158): When She Was Good / Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback