βSon, I think you have made a mistake. You have written IPS five times.β βNo, sir, itβs not a mistake,β I said. βIt is deliberate. Sir, give me IPS or nothing.β Rakesh Mariaβs entry into the elite Indian Police Service and rise to the coveted post of Mumbaiβs Police Commissioner is a gripping
Let Me Count the Ways
β Scribed by Peter De Vries
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 266 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it all
Stanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer. His heroes are H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow, and if he confuses "illusion" with "allusion" and thinks a certain style of egg is "bedeviled," that does not mean his reasoning is any less sound. Unfortunately, his wife is immune to his intellect and insists not just on saving his soul but on taking their son, Tom, to the local gospel mission every chance she gets. It is enough to drive a man into the arms of a mistress "funny as a crutch and twice as perceptive"βand that is exactly where Stan goes.
This leaves Tom twice as mixed up as the average son. In the second section of this side-splitting and thought-provoking comedy, he is a professor of English at the local college, his questions about faith, doubt, and morality as...
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