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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Where's Daddy

Where's Daddy

Roos, William

Paperback

Humor

ISBN10: 1479416177
ISBN13: 9781479416172
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Oct 4 2024
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Tom Wade came home to Westport on a Wednesday evening and told his wife he had quit his lucrative advertising job to write The Great American Novel. Em had been a good wife for twelve years -- she reeled a bit but was determined to support her husband in his aim, while their son Gordy, an enthusiastic Little Leaguer, was simply thrilled to have Daddy home for evening practice. But the neighbors, who had always trusted Tom, were hurt and horrified. Bob Talbot, their closest friend, spoke for the whole community of Madison-Avenue-commuters when he insisted Tom was already one helluva writer: There hasn't been as brilliantly sustained writing in America in the past twenty years as your Frozyumyum copy. The laundry man kissed Tom's custom good-bye, but the Wade liquor bill soared to $140 in a month, and the cleaning woman quit--because, of course, Tom hadn't written a word, but had started out waxing the floor, defrosting the refrigerator, ironing slips, planning a study, beginning his literary journal, and daydreaming about agents, publishers, producers, and movie stars.

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