Cove Lou - Man Of The Year A Memoir - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " Hilarious and poignant" People Magazine For one 1970's family the center may not hold but it certainly does fold. In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours Starsky fights crime with Hutch and twelve - year - old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem Massachusetts a backwater town of witches Puritans and sea - captain wannabes. After his eighth move in a dozen years Lou figures he should just resign himself to a teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes school bullies and unrequited lust for every girl he likes. Then one October morning an old friend of Lou's father free - wheeling (and free - loving) Howie Gordon arrives at the Cove doorstep from California with his beautiful wife Carly. Howie is everything Lou wants to be: handsome as a movie star built like a god and in possession of an unstoppable confidence. Then over Thanksgiving dinner Howie drops a bombshell. Holding up an issue of Playgirl Magazine he flips to the center and there he is Mr. November in all his natural glory. Howie has his eye on becoming the next Burt Reynolds and a wild idea for how to do it: win Playgirl's Man of the Year. And he knows just who should manage his campaign. As Lou and Howie canvas Salem for every vote in town little old ladies at bridge club the local town witch construction workers on break and everyone in between Lou is forced to juggle the perils of adolescence with the pursuit of Hollywood stardom. Man of the Year is the improbable true story of Lou's thirteenth year one very unusual campaign and the unexpected guest who changes everything.
Title: Man Of The Year A Memoir
Author(s): Cove Lou
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Barcode: 9781250123985
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/26/2018
Category: Memoirs