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The Fat Guy from Greenwich

The Fat Guy from Greenwich

Genova, Jane

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Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN10: 1432751115
ISBN13: 9781432751111
Publisher: Outskirts Pr
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 9.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
The Fat Guy From Greenwich peeks at the comic underbelly of success on the Gold Coast of Connecticut. In this novel, the main character Jonathan Miller II aka The Fat Guy From Greenwich is a venture capitalist who became wealthy during the 1990s boom and made even more after The Crash. He is one of the few left standing in that smug town of Greenwich, Connecticut in 2008.

Drive to Be a Somebody

The son of German immigrants who came to America during Hitler's time, Miller had been molested by his greenhorn uncle and bullied by his classmates. Overweight, poorly coordinated, and a Mama's boy, he seeks relief from the pain by the drive to be become somebody. That type of somebody will never be accepted by the in-crowd. Those in the old-money circles of Greenwich look down on him. It's an experience he thoroughly enjoys.

When The Fat Guy isn't consumed with deals, he amuses himself by taking success wannabes emotional hostage. Systematically, he torments them with promises, double-binds, and careless treatment.

Success Wannabes

One of the hostages is Maria Romano, a big personality mess who blew in from working class Jersey City, New Jersey and longs to be part of The Establishment. Another is Mary Murphy. Because she is a known rat, they refer to her as Hail Mary Full of Shit. There are also two former jailbirds Red and Shorty who are hungering for the next scheme. The only survivor in this group is Chris Reilly, a former priest, who turns out to be as wounded and cagey as Miller and replaces him as the Skinny Fat Guy From Greenwich.

Twenty-First Century The Great Gatsby

The themes of the novel update those of twentieth-century The Great Gatsby. They hammer:

- The universal hunger of the outsider or the other to become an insider, even if in the process they lose their talent, dignity, and lives.

Author Jane Genova Takes Vow of Poverty

The author Jane Genova came to this ironic point of view about striving to be a somebody after she chased conventional success. She thought she had caught it: A Victorian house on the Gold Coast, a beach house on the Jersey Shore. What had really been happening is that it had caught her, firmly in its jaws, eating her alive.

The lessons of the book are ones she has herself learned. One of them has been to embrace and celebrate what she had acquired growing up on the mean streets of Jersey City, New Jersey.

In 2003, she took a vow of poverty, moving back to a working-class neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut. Her only indulgence has been on behalf of her three cats: Fancy Feast twice a day. Once a devout Roman Catholic, she's become a Buddhist. She dispenses with everything, be it a flat screen television or a goal, that she becomes overly attached to.

Creative Homeruns

No surprise, both her creativity and productivity surged. Since throwing in the towel on wanting to be accepted by The Establishment, she has written four nonfiction books such as Saving Souls on Park Avenue, K Street and Greenwich, Connecticut and Geezer Guts: Making a buck, no matter what our age. She has produced short fiction such as The Last Cannoli. She operates three syndicated blogs http: //janegenova.com, http: //lawandmore.typepad.com, and http: //careertransitions.typepad.com. The first two are also distributed by Amazon.com's Kindle. Through her communications boutique Genova Writing Coaching and More, she provides strategy and content to startups, small businesses and individuals in transition [janegenova.com].

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