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Date of Release: February 2003 |
Publisher: Penguin Books |
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Needless to say, he immediately enters into a handful of improbable and zany adventures, capped by an arrest at the airport as he's getting ready to fly to Acapulco! During his trial, his attorney opts for a temporary insanity defense, which the jury buys because his buddies testify he "went bananas" for a week when he found the money.
Finders Keepers is an hilarious read, but this comedy has an edge to it - the tragedy of the lower classes who are raised to go to work out on the docks like their fathers and uncles and older brothers, only there's no work for them on the docks anymore, and there's nothing else they know how to do.
This is a story about addiction and about the belief that there is a shortcut to true happiness.
Can good fortune lead to tragic ruin? It sure can.
Poor Joey is a tragic figure whose internal flaws, despite his good fortune, emerge to undo him. Many of us, likewise, have envisioned what we would do if sudden riches came upon us...this book may make you think again...
