Fool
Frederick Dillen(Author)
AmazonEncore (Publisher)
Published on 7. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-61218-368-8 (ISBN)
Description
"For Christ sake don't become a fluffmeister" are the last words Barnaby Griswold's father utters to him. But despite trying to turn out otherwise, Barnaby is indisputably a fool. A well-educated, well-connected investments player on the one hand, but an entitled money-driven fool on the other.
Barnaby Griswold's life changes almost overnight when he's found to have acted perhaps slimily (but not illegally) by selling short a stock. His wife deserts him, his daughters disown him, and he loses his final and favorite home. All he has left is a similarly deserted mother-in-law, in Oklahoma of all places, and of course the enemies who went belly up on his final deal.
At forty-six, disgraced and broke and lonely, Barnaby must repair his life and maybe, just maybe, he'll learn that doing the foolish thing may lead to his redemption.
Out of print for more than a decade, Frederick G. Dillen's comic and now timely novel about an unlikely hero is being reissued as part of librarian and NPR commentator Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries series.
Barnaby Griswold's life changes almost overnight when he's found to have acted perhaps slimily (but not illegally) by selling short a stock. His wife deserts him, his daughters disown him, and he loses his final and favorite home. All he has left is a similarly deserted mother-in-law, in Oklahoma of all places, and of course the enemies who went belly up on his final deal.
At forty-six, disgraced and broke and lonely, Barnaby must repair his life and maybe, just maybe, he'll learn that doing the foolish thing may lead to his redemption.
Out of print for more than a decade, Frederick G. Dillen's comic and now timely novel about an unlikely hero is being reissued as part of librarian and NPR commentator Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries series.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
ISBN-13
978-1-61218-368-8 (9781612183688)
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Frederick G. Dillen was born in Greenwich Village to a family on fire, raised in a New Hampshire boarding school, and graduated from Stanford. To pay for his writing, he worked odd jobs from Lahaina to Taos and New York to L.A., managing a hotel and running a fake ranch, carrying plates and shilling for business. His short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His Hero was named Best First Novel of 1994 by the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Dillen and his wife Leslie are parents of two grown daughters and three dogs and have settled, for good they hope, in New Mexico.