Home > Fiction > Adventure > Historical adventure > Fat Guy from Greenwich
12%
Fat Guy from Greenwich

Fat Guy from Greenwich

          
5
4
3
2
1

Out of Stock


Premium quality
Premium quality
Bookswagon upholds the quality by delivering untarnished books. Quality, services and satisfaction are everything for us!
Easy Return
Easy return
Not satisfied with this product! Keep it in original condition and packaging to avail easy return policy.
Certified product
Certified product
First impression is the last impression! Address the book’s certification page, ISBN, publisher’s name, copyright page and print quality.
Secure Checkout
Secure checkout
Security at its finest! Login, browse, purchase and pay, every step is safe and secured.
Money back guarantee
Money-back guarantee:
It’s all about customers! For any kind of bad experience with the product, get your actual amount back after returning the product.
On time delivery
On-time delivery
At your doorstep on time! Get this book delivered without any delay.
Notify me when this book is in stock
Add to Wishlist

About the Book

"The Fat Guy From Greenwich" peeks at the comic underbelly of success on the Gold Coast of Connecticut. In this novel, the main character Jonathan Miller II aka The Fat Guy From Greenwich is a venture capitalist who became wealthy during the 1990s boom and made even more after The Crash. He is one of the few left standing in that smug town of Greenwich, Connecticut in 2008.

Drive to Be a Somebody

The son of German immigrants who came to America during Hitler's time, Miller had been molested by his greenhorn uncle and bullied by his classmates. Overweight, poorly coordinated, and a Mama's boy, he seeks relief from the pain by the drive to be become somebody. That type of somebody will never be accepted by the in-crowd. Those in the old-money circles of Greenwich look down on him. It's an experience he thoroughly enjoys.

When The Fat Guy isn't consumed with deals, he amuses himself by taking success wannabes emotional hostage. Systematically, he torments them with promises, double-binds, and careless treatment.

Success Wannabes

One of the hostages is Maria Romano, a big personality mess who blew in from working class Jersey City, New Jersey and longs to be part of The Establishment. Another is Mary Murphy. Because she is a known rat, they refer to her as Hail Mary Full of Shit. There are also two former jailbirds Red and Shorty who are hungering for the next scheme. The only survivor in this group is Chris Reilly, a former priest, who turns out to be as wounded and cagey as Miller and replaces him as the Skinny Fat Guy From Greenwich.

Twenty-First Century "The Great Gatsby"

The themes of the novel update those of twentieth-century "The Great Gatsby." They hammer:

- The universal hunger of the outsider or “the other” to become an insider, even if in the process they lose their talent, dignity, and lives.

Author Jane Genova Takes Vow of Poverty

The author Jane Genova came to this ironic point of view about striving to be a somebody after she chased conventional success. She thought she had caught it: A Victorian house on the Gold Coast, a beach house on the Jersey Shore. What had really been happening is that it had caught her, firmly in its jaws, eating her alive.

The lessons of the book are ones she has herself learned. One of them has been to embrace and celebrate what she had acquired growing up on the mean streets of Jersey City, New Jersey.

In 2003, she took a vow of poverty, moving back to a working-class neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut. Her only indulgence has been on behalf of her three cats: Fancy Feast twice a day. Once a devout Roman Catholic, she's become a Buddhist. She dispenses with everything, be it a flat screen television or a goal, that she becomes overly attached to.

Creative Homeruns

No surprise, both her creativity and productivity surged. Since throwing in the towel on wanting to be accepted by The Establishment, she has written four nonfiction books such as "Saving Souls on Park Avenue, K Street and Greenwich, Connecticut" and "Geezer Guts: Making a buck, no matter what our age." She has produced short fiction such as "The Last Cannoli." She operates three syndicated blogs http://janegenova.com, http://lawandmore.typepad.com, and http://careertransitions.typepad.com. The first two are also distributed by Amazon.com's Kindle. Through her communications boutique Genova Writing Coaching and More, she provides strategy and content to startups, small businesses and individuals in transition [janegenova.com].


Best Sellers



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781432751111
  • Publisher: Outskirts Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1432751115
  • Publisher Date: 12 Nov 2009
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 122
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 191 gr

Related Categories

Similar Products

How would you rate your experience shopping for books on Bookswagon?

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS           
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Fat Guy from Greenwich
Outskirts Press -
Fat Guy from Greenwich
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Fat Guy from Greenwich

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book
    Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals



    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!