SIDEWALK DANCE IBD

Sinopse

From the author ofáGlass Bottle Seasonácomes a gritty new coming-of-age novel that examines what happens when one manâÇÖs desperate journey to become a New York Writer leaves him more 'tortured' than 'artist.'áSidewalk Danceáis a portrait of the artist as a deluded self-saboteur. Haunted by hisábrotherâÇÖs tragic death in the War in Afghanistan and unable to process this trauma,áFisher shuns his elitist pedigree by abruptly quitting Yale Law School, changing hisáname to Fish, and moving to New York City. Once there, he sets about reinventingáhimself as a doomed playwright. Unfortunately for Fish, he is more of an idealistáthan a talent, a dreamer more than a doer. His delusions of grandeur quickly leadáhim into an abyss of self-doubt, addiction, identity crisis, and isolation.The pregnancy of his would-be muse, Madame Meticulous, the debaucherousátendencies of his alter ego, Partiboy, and the impending destruction of the HellâÇÖsáKitchen art gallery where he works combine to complicate FishâÇÖs pursuit of literaryálegacy. His central delusion is that by cloaking himself in the trappings and lifestyle of the tortured artist (hurling his iPhone off the Brooklyn Bridge, smokingáhand-rolled cigarettes, growing out his hair, drunkenly clobbering a typewriter lateáat night), he will somehow become one. As paternity, unemployment, creativeásterility, and romantic abandonment loom, Fish clings to a misguided hope that theástaging of his play will make all well again.