Schmuck
by Ross Klavan
Greenpoint Press,
2014
ISBN-13: 978-0988696839
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In advertising, there
are mad men. On radio, there are funny men.
Tune In... In 1960s New York, radio is king, and
Elkin and Fox are the hottest morning team in town. Jerry Elkin is the funny
half — a genius at dialects and double-talk, zingers and zany characters.
Sinatra flies him to Vegas on his private plane, and Rocky Graziano drinks with
him (and punches him). But Jerry's life? That's no laughing matter. Secretly,
he seethes at his straight-man partner, Ted Fox, a handsome rake who'd rather
shtup a secretary in the studio than entertain TV offers, a guy who makes Jerry
feel less a star and more a schmuck.
And that's before
Jerry ever hears the name Sari Rosenbloom. The stunning eighteen-year-old is a
mystical American dream, irresistible to men — and her most obsessed admirer
is Jake, Jerry's son. With the 1960s world spinning out of control, Jake is
fighting for a girl who can have anyone she wants — from the world famous artist
who has sketched her nude to bon vivant Ted Fox, who's singing her name on air.
Media
Andrea McGuigan interviews Ross for The570.com
Loren Kleinman interviews Ross for Huffington Post
