Have you
ever felt like a loser? Ever see your
dreams evaporate? Are you amused,
angered, frustrated by the talking heads you see on cable news pontificating
and posing with smug righteousness? Ever
identified with Larry David?
Wanna-be’s is a comic sendup of our politically-correct-multicultural- selfie society. Winfield Payton is a thirty-seven-year-old English instructor and wanna-be screenwriter. Urged by his Century 21 girlfriend to “go condo,” Winfield needs cash. He accepts a job offer from a college friend and becomes the only white employee in a black savings and loan. As the token white, he poses as a Mafioso to intimidate skittish investors and woos a wealthy cougar to keep the firm afloat. Figure-skating between the worlds of white and black, Jew and Gentile, gay and straight, male and female, Yuppie and militant, Payton flies higher and higher until the inevitable crash….
Payton bumbles and stumbles through a series of politically-incorrect misadventures – from dating a soccer mom with a taste for bondage to attending a Halloween party in a black gay bar. Along the way he meets Dr. Veraswami, a Nigerian exponent of “liberation capitalism,” and Father Moses, a formidable black alderman who throws Oreo cookies at African American sell-outs.
A writer only knows if a book works when readers connect with it. Readers get their best insights into new titles by word of mouth, so it’s worth quoting the first review a reader posted on Amazon:
What can I say about Winfield Payton...is he the most
unlucky pasty or most unlikely fall guy...what a schmuck...I laughed so hard at
this,for this guy....with this guy....every character described in this book
will immediately remind you of a real life joker in the in the 24 hour news
cycle on all of the Major networks and cable television channels regurgitating
skewed facts benefiting them and lining their pockets....it's hip and fresh
writing which could easily become a HBO series....or Starz..maybe..anyway get
this book....this book is not for the faint of heart..or PC sensitive
readers...
Check out
the first chapter on Amazon. I think you
will find Winfield Payton a character who will amuse you, delight you, disgust
you, but never bore you.
About the Author
Mark Connelly was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey. He received a BA in English from Carroll College in Wisconsin and an MA and PhD from the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His books include The Diminished Self:
Orwell and the Loss of Freedom, Orwell and Gissing, Deadly
Closets: The Fiction of Charles Jackson, and The IRA on
Film and Television. His fiction has appeared in The
Ledge, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, Milwaukee Magazine, and Home Planet
News. In 2014 he received an Editor’s Choice Award in The
Carve’s Raymond Carver Short Story Contest; in 2015 he received Third Place in Red Savina Review’s
Albert Camus Prize for Short Fiction. His novella Fifteen Minutes received
the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in
2005.
Mark’s latest book is the literary fiction/humor/satire,
Wanna-be’s.
About the Book:
Title:
WANNA-BE’S
Author: Mark Connelly
Publisher: Mark Connelly Productions
Pages: 188
Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire
With his new girlfriend – a soccer
mom with a taste for bondage – urging him to “go condo,” failed screenwriter
Winfield Payton needs cash. Accepting a job offer from a college friend, he becomes
the lone white employee of a black S&L. As the firm’s token white, he poses
as a Mafioso to intimidate skittish investors and woos a wealthy cougar to keep
the firm afloat. Figure-skating between the worlds of white and black, gay and
straight, male and female, Jew and Gentile, Yuppie and militant, Payton flies
higher and higher until the inevitable crash. . .
Praise for
Wanna-be’s:
This book right here! What can I
say about Winfield Payton...is he the most unlucky pasty or most unlikely fall
guy...what a schmuck...I laughed so hard at this,for this guy....with this
guy....every character described in this book will immediately remind you of a
real life joker in the in the 24 hour news cycle on all of the Major networks
and cable television channels regurgitating skewed facts benefiting them and
lining their pockets....it's hip and fresh writing which could easily become a
HBO series....or Starz..maybe..anyway get this book....I laughed so
hard...almost popping my recent stitches from surgery...Mr. Connelly...thanks
for making my recuperation fun...this book is not for the faint of heart..or PC
sensitive readers...
-- Lynda Garcia Review
For More Information
- Wanna-be’s is available at Amazon.
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