“Almost Home: The New Paltz Novel” E-Book
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
When former baseball phenom Enzo Prinziatta is recruited into a powerful, shady-business fraternity, he thinks he’s found the solution to all of his campus-life problems.
But when he discovers the truth behind the frat’s prosperity, can he untangle himself from it before it’s too late for him to resurrect his career?
LONGISH DESCRIPTION:
Enzo Prinziatta had the American-Dream life right in front of him. Baseball America magazine ranked him as the 4th best high school prospect in the nation, his 95-MPH fastball would secure him a massive, guaranteed-money contract, and he would live the life of mansions, fast cars, and faster women.
But it didn’t happen.
When we meet Enzo in ALMOST HOME, he’s an average hurler for tiny New Paltz College, fattened by beer binges, a lackluster Tommy John-surgery rehab program, and the general decay of college life.
At a frat party where a stripper has just died, he meets Barry Budski, the President of the frat. Budski soon promises Enzo he can help him regain his former glory—for a steep price. With alarm bells and red flags going off in his mind, Enzo decides to forge this uneasy alliance despite the fact that both he and Barry are in love with the same girl: “Jenny Drama,” a hauntingly beautiful theater major with a constant need to perform.
Drawing on themes culled from sources as diverse as Homer’s ILIAD and Dr. Paul Dobransky’s breakthrough theories on the operating system of the mind and temperament integration, ALMOST HOME packs a powerful narrative punch with a long-lasting impact.
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“From Achilles to Tyler Durden: Why Fiction Matters for Men” E-Book
Description: A manifesto with 5 tools for men to fix problems in their lives.
Tool # 1: Brain Strength Training
Tool # 2: The Hairy Tale
Tool # 3: Robert Bly on “Iron John”
Tool # 4: Stuff a Kindle
Tool # 5: Actionize
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“A Car Crash of Sorts” E-Book (Kindle Single)
Description: The only soldier in the history of the Army to bring both MACBETH and DUINO ELEGIES to boot camp, Dante Kronos recruits his best buddies to establish “The Reading Maniacs Reading Group” on Fort Bragg. When a barracks brothel-ring threatens to annihilate his team, can Dante destroy the threat and save the brotherhood?
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4-Star Review, 5/10/2011: Dante Kronos, a paratrooper assigned to Fort Bragg, comes off a week in the field. He’s expecting a weekend of drinking, reading, and hot dogs with a quirky group of disciples. But his posse abandons him and he looks to fill the gap. But fill it with what?
Marcopolos takes us from the barracks to the couch of a Delta Force captain – not at home – whose wife Dante met “through the plausible guise of Amway.” There’s Dante’s attempt to connect with another soldier jumping from a C-130. Also a drunken drive down the North Carolina backroads.
Through it all, Dante struggles against the feeling that he is under bombardment and it’s “only a matter of time before they [get] the coordinates right and [nail him] with a direct hit.” He needs to move. He craves action, but he’s leery when it comes.
Marcopolos riffs on the rhythms of real-guy speech. He punctuates his straight-up style with the occasional over-the-top phrase or reference. His soldiers’ voices are right on. He shows us military life as only an insider can. And he makes us feel for this soldier who struggles to leave his demons and his isolation behind.
(Barr Bielinski, on Amazon.com)
Tweet5-Star Review, 3/28/2011: This short story is packed with action, intrigue, and events that really make you stop and think. It is really refreshing to read about a military man and not have him be a chest-thumping neanderthal. Dante has a heart and a soul and a conscience. I found I was really pulling for him. If only I could find more authors who could draw me into the story like Frank Marcopolos can. I look forward to any future work, because I know I’m in for a wild emotional ride!
(litlife, on Amazon.com)
