A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it's done, and his wife, Agnestaking time off from her personal-trainer loverhas come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a me
Chump Change: A Novel: novel
β Scribed by Dan Fante
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 286 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it's done, and his wife, Agnestaking time off from her personal-trainer loverhas come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a message from the West Coast: his screenwriter father is in the hospital in a coma and is not expected to live. So Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows howwith alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.
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