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Title: It Won't Always Be This Great
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Peter Mehlman
Narrator: Don Sobczak
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-15-14
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: Fiction, Humor
Publisher's Summary:
A moment of rage in suburbia...
In the crushing complacency of suburbia, mid-life crises pop in on men's lives unannounced. For one Long Island podiatrist, it takes an impromptu act of vandalism just to make him aware of his own being. Walking home in the sub-zero wind chill of a Friday night, he stumbles on a bottle of horseradish and mindlessly hurls it through the window of a popular store selling over-sexed tween fashions. This one tiny, out-of-character impulse turns his life vivid and terrifying, triggering waves of fear, crooked cops, and suspicions of anti-Semitism, both accurate and paranoid.
The story is told by this same podiatrist, an often hysterical, endearingly wide-eyed, and entirely nameless narrator, to what he regards as the perfect audience: a comatose college friend. Yet, our narrator's most unique quality lies simply in his glowing love for his wife Alyse, the girl of his dreams whom he met in college and still can't quite believe he attained. She is the mother of his two children, Esme and Charlie, who are just starting to come into their own minds and experiencing their first encounters with prejudice.
Pushed to the edge by his own desires, despairs, and disappointments, our narrator is about to find out what it's like to become a criminal, and what his excruciatingly dull neighborhood looks like when it's been turned upside down.
Chock full of heart and humor, It Won't Always Be This Great, the debut novel of former Seinfeld writer Peter Mehlman, shows how one man's story is never really his story alone, it's the story of his family, of his friends, of those he neglected, of those he remembers, of his enemies, and of his hopes, failures, dreams, and realities. And how one snap decision can change the course of a life.
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
Laugh out loud funny!
It Won't Always Be This Great
This is a first novel from a writer whose background includes longtime writing for the tv show âSeinfeld,â which gives one an inkling of what will be found in its pages:. Its plot is somewhat hard to describe, for it consists of a tale told by its protagonist, to a friend, the identity of whom is made known to the reader only very gradually. Suffice it to say that the latter has known since their college days at Baltimore University. The story he is relating (at what even he describes as being at a âridiculously slow paceâ) is a series of events which took place the previous December and unfolded over a period of days, events triggered by a moment of rage on his part. To say the least, it is non-sequential, which can be seen by its chapter titles: âFriday, Then and Now,â âSaturday Then,â âSaturday Now,â âSunday Then,â âMonday Then,â âSunday Now,â and âTuesday Then.â
Our nameless protag is a podiatrist, now 51 years old, married for over 20 years to the former Alyse Epstein, from whom he grew up âfifteen miles and ten income tax brackets apart.â They have 2 children, and live in a community on Long Island whose population is primarily Jewish. The kids go to âpublic school because I wanted my kids to meet a black person before they turned thirty.â Those two things â the religious affiliation and the racial reference - - are important to the tale, but in a very funny way.