Hi. I am proud to announce that my pal Jeff Bezos and
his editorial elves at Kindle have just published my debut novel.
It’s entitled “Society’s Pliers” and its principals
are three newly minted graduates of Columbia University . . . in 1968. (Or: “What
could possibly go wrong?”)
Yeah, but what’s it about? It’s about 53,000 words –
four hours of your life if you can sustain 225 words a minute at one sitting.
(I can’t.)
Structurally, it’s a burlesque show – a sequence of
comedy sketches that wanders all over Manhattan, pausing to make fun out of everything
it stumbles into. In no particular order: a Fight Night at the New Madison Square
Garden … working as a waiter at a not-so-trendy
East Side watering hole/singles bar . . . making a fortune in Wall Street as a
greedy underwriter . . . Did you know you can make a nice living as an
intercollegiate football player even in the Ivy League? You can! (Not you, you
can’t play football.) . . .
And that’s the tip o’ the iceberg. It’s Columbia, folks.
We’ll replay the campus riots of that spring that made the university a
national laughingstock . . . we’ll get outta town for a weekend – a train trip
to Philadelphia for one of our heroes, a house party in Bergen County for
another (sure sounds like love & romance, don’t it?)
And then there’s Other Stuff: a daring escape by boat
from Castro’s Cuba (written as an homage to Ernest Hemingway); a mini-biography
of the real Jay Gould; what exactly is a “tenement”? I tell you, folks, the
hits just keep on coming . . .
And here’s your chance to make this book the literary
breakthrough it deserves to be. Prayerfully consider buying a copy. Open your
browser, steer to the amazon.com web page. Type Arthur Durbano into the Search
Box. Click it, and it will whisk you to my Kindle page. Click on Society Pliers.
Add it to your cart and go to checkout. Tell me where I stole the title from
and I might buy you a copy for your grandmother (but probably not). Twenty
bucks. I need the money.
