Screenplay by Eric Kraft, based on his novel. Matthew Barber, living in Boston, is vice-president of a toy company by day, but becomes Bertram W. Beath, restaurant reviewer, when the sun goes down.... More > Reservations Recommended is a satire of the critical mind; a dark commentary on contemporary culture; a story of midlife crisis; a morality play; and a book that matches bleakness against humor, seasoned throughout with B. W. Beath’s hilariously acid reviews. We watch as Matthew Barber descends from a self-protective superiority into a species of madness, and into the dark night of the soul. • “A brilliant satire.” LA Life • “Scary.” Kirkus Reviews • “Shrewd, adroit, and spirited.” Donna Seaman, Booklist • “A moving urban fable.” Roger Harris, Newark Star Ledger • “A merciless sendup of contemporary American pretensions.’ Janice Harayda, Cleveland Plain Dealer • “Wonderfully readable . . . touching and intelligent.” Richard Gehr, The Village Voice< Less
Screenplay by Eric Kraft, based on his novel. Peter Leroy struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping his mother’s hopes and his mother’s boat afloat.... More > Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom life. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally-notorious girlfriend Patti in a scheme to buy a run-down clamboat and re-invent it as an elegant cruising vessel for summer people in the bayside town of Babbington, Long Island. But after they’ve bought the boat, Peter discovers that it is slowly sinking. “Raucous, wise, and great fun, this is simply not to be missed.” Nancy Pearl, Booklist “The secret dreams and yearnings of a soul in the making, a fool for beauty.” Frederic Koeppel, Memphis Commercial Appeal “Fascinating and sophisticated.” Jennifer Reese, The New York Times Book Review “The best description of sex appeal anywhere, ever.” Peter Jon Shuler< Less
At Small’s, on a little island off Long Island, Albertine runs the hotel while Peter works quietly on his memoirs, but the future of the hotel, and of every gift Peter dreams of giving... More > Albertine, is in jeopardy. Business has fallen off and the old hotel is falling down. Bills are mounting. Foreclosure looms. What Peter does to save the hotel, his marriage, and possibly his life involves storytelling, friendship, memory, electrical contraptions, and great, abiding love. • “Kraft’s take on the national experience is thoughtful,disturbing, and unlike that of any other American writer.” — Anthony Brandt, Men’s Journal • “Each apparently innocent anecdote chimes with Kraft’s broader theme of the imagined life, of its thrilling, enhancing, and ultimately dangerous connection to the real.” — Claire Messud, Newsday • “A wonderful matryoshka of a novel . . . with just the sort of spectacular intricacy that makes a business fail and a novel fly.” — The New Yorker • LENGTH: novel< Less
Peter Leroy struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping his mother’s hopes and his mother’s boat afloat.
Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary... More > routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom life. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally-notorious girlfriend Patti in a scheme to buy a run-down clamboat and re-invent it as an elegant cruising vessel for summer people in the bayside town of Babbington, Long Island. But after they’ve bought the boat, Peter discovers that it is slowly sinking.
“Raucous, wise, and great fun, this is simply not to be missed.”
Nancy Pearl, Booklist
“The secret dreams and yearnings of a soul in the making, a fool for beauty.”
Frederic Koeppel, Memphis Commercial Appeal
“Fascinating and sophisticated.”
Jennifer Reese, The New York Times Book Review
“The best description of sex appeal anywhere, ever.”
Peter Jon Shuler< Less
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