The Ringer by Bill Scheft

The Ringer by Bill Scheft

Morton Martin Spell -- a once-brilliant, now-infirm seventy-five-year-old writer -- is sliding into delirium. He thinks Mount Sinai Hospital is an exclusive golf course and his catheter is a gym bag. His only link to reality is his thirty-five-year-old nephew, who makes his living as a hired gun for thirteen softball teams and still goes by the name College Boy.

But College Boy's body has begun to betray him -- almost as much as his lack of ambition. (His only legitimate paycheck comes from a gig as a laugher on a morning radio show.) Not only that, the Dirt King, a small-time gangster who controls all the replacement soil in Central Park, is after College Boy. As their lives collide, College Boy takes refuge in the arms of Sheila -- his uncle's cleaning woman and a part-time call girl.

And then it gets weird.

BILL SCHEFT is the author of three previous novels. His second, Time Won't Let Me, was a finalist for the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor. A staff writer for David Letterman since 1991, he has been nominated for 16 Emmys. He has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire and Sports Illustrated. He lives in New York City with his wife, comedian Adrianne Tolsch, and the voices in his head.

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ISBN 13	9780060512583
ISBN 10	006051258X
Title	The Ringer
Author	Bill Scheft
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2003-07-01
Number of pages	256
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