Who Killed the Fonz?
$41.46
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2020
Summary
The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty, “shamelessly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) 1980s noir.
Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. And Richard Cunningham? Well, Richard Cunningham is having a really bad Sunday.
First, there’s the meeting with his agent. A decade ago, the forty-something Cunningham was one of Hollywood’s hottest screenwriters. But now Tinseltown…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501196898 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501196898 |
| Author: | James Boice |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 140mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Readers yearning for simpler times will enjoy this trip down memory lane, which is as comforting as an episode of Happy Days.” -Publishers Weekly “Shamelessly entertaining…” -Kirkus Reviews “A wildly inventive and entertaining novel.” -Booklist “James Boice has achieved a magic kind of alchemy, exhuming beloved characters from our collective consciousness and gifting them with a fate, a future, and poignant inner lives. Who Killed the Fonz? is the best kind of pop-culture hypothetical - one that imagines, with heart, wit, and smarts, what happens when the Happy Days fade and real life begins.” - Adam Sternbergh, Edgar-nominated author of The Blinds
“I must confess that I never watched a single episode of Happy Days during its ten-year run, but reading Who Killed The Fonz? made me wish I had. Thank you, James Boice, not only for giving us a fast-paced, entertaining novel, but for reminding us in these corrupt Orwellian/Tower of Babel times we live in now, that not so many years ago “friending” someone meant much more than just clicking on a mouse, and that doing the right thing, no matter the risk, was looked upon as honorable and something to be proud of rather than as a sucker’s game.” -Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and The Heavenly Table
“Who Killed the Fonz? stands tall in a field of television property revivals. James Boice deftly mixes the broad comedy of the TV series with classic noir elements, resulting in an unexpectedly emotional rollercoaster ride that’s more than a novelty. Happy Days are here again!” -Andrew Shaffer, author of the New York Times bestseller Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery
About The Author
James Boice
James Boice was born in California in 1982, raised in northern Virginia, and currently lives near Boston. He is the author of MVP and Who Killed The Fonz?
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