Tom Lutz
Kindle Edition | Pages: 135 pages Rating: 4.08 | 38 Users | 18 Reviews
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A globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity."Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess, or something like it, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years."
Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry's office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball, Frank heads to Asia, falls in love with Dmitry's wife, and things go from bad to worse.
Combining the best elements of literary thriller, noir and political satire, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism.
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| Title | : | Born Slippy |
| Author | : | Tom Lutz |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 135 pages |
| Published | : | January 14th 2020 by Repeater |
| Categories | : | Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 38 Users | 18 ReviewsJudgment About Books Born Slippy
In the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Lutz has given us a shrewd, mordant tale of the male ego sucked into the modern maelstrom. Frank is a decent man but Dmitri is the devil on his shoulder, seducing him with all the messy pleasures of financial manipulation and global debauchery. Dmitri takes Frank on a wild global ride from his good intentions to his true intentions, and then forces him to confront the consequences of his new self. In this bracing, captivating tale Tom Lutz, as seductive asThis comic noir novel of unlikely friends, a 29 year old carpenter Frank, an autodidactic over-read over-thinker, is working on a spec house in Connecticut upon which his financial future depends, and pressed for money, pressed for time, and lacking qualified workers, reluctantly hires the 18-year-old son of friends of friends, an overprivileged English slacker named Dmitry. The novel follows their friendship from Frank's point of view, as he alternately tries to unload Dmitry and vicariously
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While reading Born Slippy by Tom Lutz I envisioned a blue-collar man with a dream of sailing a boat mixed up in the world of capitalists in a global setting. Then I began to wonder if its money that corrupts or the ignorance of a man that has gotten himself in many dilemmas. Author Tom Lutz has created an entertaining prose page-turner that chronicles the lives of two men, an odd couple, in a world of drugs, fraud, and financial greed.Frank Baltimore, a struggling handyman gets a break landing a
I could not find the point of this. Two very unappealing male characters strike up an unlikely friendship. One, Dimitri, a cocky, white collar fraudster, and the other, Kevin I think he was called, a boring house developer with dreams of owning a boat. The nefarious activities of the former ultimately benefited the latter. I ended up speed reading the whole thing just to get to the end. Not my kind of thing at all.
This comic noir novel of unlikely friends, a 29 year old carpenter Frank, an autodidactic over-read over-thinker, is working on a spec house in Connecticut upon which his financial future depends, and pressed for money, pressed for time, and lacking qualified workers, reluctantly hires the 18-year-old son of friends of friends, an overprivileged English slacker named Dmitry. The novel follows their friendship from Frank's point of view, as he alternately tries to unload Dmitry and vicariously
The story is mainly focused on two characters, Frank and Dimitry. Their simple acquaintance and an initially master-apprentice kind of relationship grew more intense as they became more involved in each other's lives. We get a glimpse of Dimitry's strong nonchalant character even at the beginning of the story. He addresses Frank who is much older than him as Franky. It does not matter to him if he cut the wrong measurements for the house they were building, or if anyone would be deeply affected
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