A sparkingly witty, poignant debut novel that is a Bright Lights Big City for a post-Reagan, pre-Y2K Philadelphia-for readers of Normal People, Sweetbitter, Modern Lovers, and Less.
It's September 1987. Charlie Green is an eighteen-year-old romantic and aspiring alcoholic whose great wish is to fall in love with a light-eyed girl on his first day of college and never look back. Charlie believes in the magic of bars and girls. He believes he can use these talismans to finally feel at home, an assurance his dim and privileged New York City childhood did not provide. In Philadelphia's Samson Street Oyster House, he meets Paula Henderson, a beautiful and deceptively soulful waitress who is the most overqualified barmaid in all the city-and perhaps the most dangerous.
In this darkly comedic coming-of-age novel, Charlie Green must grow up fast. At stake is his soul.
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978-1-950994-28-1 (9781950994281)
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Daniel Roberts is a native New Yorker who attended the University of Pennsylvania, where the seeds were planted for his debut novel, Bar Maid. Roberts is the author of the plays Haunted House, which the New York Times called "Sparklingly original with characters that stick," and Brando, of which Time Out New York wrote: "An impressive piece of writing, recalling Edward Albee or John Guare." He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
