Swimming with Bridgeport Girls

Name: Swimming with Bridgeport Girls
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Tambakis
ISBN: 9781520075990

Author: Anthony Tambakis

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamworks Media, LLC

Published: 07/11/2017

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

Ray Parisi is in trouble. Fired from his anchor job at ESPN after one too many public humiliations, Ray is holed up in a motel and in dire need of a break. His ex is engaged and shacking up with another guy in his old house, a Cambodian bookie wants to kill him, and he's wanted by the New York State Police. A few days before the Fourth of July, he unexpectedly receives an inheritance from his long-lost father, and it seems like all of his problems might be solved. Determined to get his life back together, Ray hatches an imaginative but highly suspect plan to win back his ex-wife, dashing from Connecticut to Las Vegas to Memphis in an attempt to secure his future before the past runs him down. Sure to please fans of Richard Russo and Richard Ford, Swimming with Bridgeport Girls is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching tale of a charismatic gambler and his misguided quest - one based on his mistaken memory of how The Great Gatsby ends - to try to win back his ex-wife.

About Anthony Tambakis

Anthony Tambakis is a renowned screenwriter and the recipient of the Paul Bowles Fellowship for fiction writing. He is currently adapting the 1961 novel and film The Hustler for Broadway and penning the screenplay for Swimming with Bridgeport Girls, his first novel. A native of Fairfield, Connecticut, Tambakis lives in Venice, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter

As other reviewers here have said, don't be put off by the gambling angle. Like a great book about baseball, or ballet, or cooking, the particular obsession/addiction of the character is not the Thing: the character is the Thing. That said, the gambling details are just right, and the moments in the......more

Goodreads review by S

Was enjoying it through the first 3 to 4 chapters, then it just started to annoy me. Then I started skimming and looking for all the dollar signs to see what the idiot Ray was going to do with his inheritance and praying the ex L was never going to take him back. Hated the ending, that could have be......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie

This book made me laugh out loud, almost tear up, and root for the delusional underdog. It was sort of amazing, this thing that happened with Ray Parisi. First thing you need to know: I am finicky with my jokes. It isn't that I don't have a sense of humor. I have a huge sense of humor, but I don't g......more

Goodreads review by Wrongleveeeeeeer

4.5 stars. Swimming with Bridgeport Girls was a lot more than I expected it to be going in. I read it on a high recommendation from someone I trust, so it wasn't that I didn't think it'd be good, it was just that the pitch I got was that the book was funny, with few other details (she knows I like to......more