The Resource Swimming with Bridgeport girls : a novel, Anthony Tambakis
Swimming with Bridgeport girls : a novel, Anthony Tambakis
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The item Swimming with Bridgeport girls : a novel, Anthony Tambakis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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- Summary
- Ray Parisi is in trouble. Fired from his anchor job at ESPN after one too many public humiliations, he is holed up in a motel and in desperate need of a break. His ex-wife is shacking up with another guy in his old house, a Cambodian bookie wants to kill him, and he's wanted by the New York State Police. A few days before the Fourth of July, he unexpectedly receives an inheritance from his long-lost father, and it seems like all of his problems might be solved. Determined to get his life back together, Ray hatches an imaginative but highly suspect plan to win back his wife, dashing from Connecticut to Las Vegas to Memphis in an attempt to secure his future before the past runs him down. The cast of characters he meets along the way is as loveable as it is absolutely insane. Sure to please fans of sophisticated romantic comedies like Seating Arrangements and Silver Linings Playbook, Swimming with Bridgeport Girls is a hilarious, heart-wrenching, and unexpectedly powerful tale about one man's mission to--against all odds--finally get it right
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451684919
- Label
- Swimming with Bridgeport girls : a novel
- Title
- Swimming with Bridgeport girls
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Anthony Tambakis
- Subject
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- trueSecond chances
- trueGamblers
- Gamblers
- Gamblers -- Fiction
- Urban fiction
- trueMainstream fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- trueSportscasters
- truePolice
- trueHumorous stories
- trueWills
- trueCompulsive gambling
- Fiction
- trueFormer wives
- trueBookies
- trueRunaway teenagers
- trueUnemployment
- Urban fiction
- trueRedemption
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Ray Parisi is in trouble. Fired from his anchor job at ESPN after one too many public humiliations, he is holed up in a motel and in desperate need of a break. His ex-wife is shacking up with another guy in his old house, a Cambodian bookie wants to kill him, and he's wanted by the New York State Police. A few days before the Fourth of July, he unexpectedly receives an inheritance from his long-lost father, and it seems like all of his problems might be solved. Determined to get his life back together, Ray hatches an imaginative but highly suspect plan to win back his wife, dashing from Connecticut to Las Vegas to Memphis in an attempt to secure his future before the past runs him down. The cast of characters he meets along the way is as loveable as it is absolutely insane. Sure to please fans of sophisticated romantic comedies like Seating Arrangements and Silver Linings Playbook, Swimming with Bridgeport Girls is a hilarious, heart-wrenching, and unexpectedly powerful tale about one man's mission to--against all odds--finally get it right
- Summary
- Fired from his ESPN job after one too many public humiliations, a charismatic gambler reevaluates his circumstances while outmaneuvering the police and a murderous bookie, only to receive an unexpected inheritance that triggers his effort to win back his ex in accordance with a misremembered ending of The Great Gatsby. A first novel
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10570631
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tambakis, Anthony
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3620.A64
- LC item number
- S95 2017
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gamblers
- Gamblers
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Swimming with Bridgeport girls : a novel, Anthony Tambakis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn961010733
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451684919
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)961010733
- Label
- Swimming with Bridgeport girls : a novel, Anthony Tambakis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn961010733
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451684919
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)961010733
Subject
- trueBookies
- trueCompulsive gambling
- Fiction
- trueFormer wives
- trueGamblers
- Gamblers
- Gamblers -- Fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- trueHumorous stories
- trueMainstream fiction
- truePolice
- trueRedemption
- trueRunaway teenagers
- trueSecond chances
- trueSportscasters
- trueUnemployment
- Urban fiction
- Urban fiction
- trueWills
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