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‘’A Film By Spencer Ludwig’, [is] such a joy to read…Spencer's own justification of his life as a "real artist", and his reasons for despising mainstream cinema, are perfectly drawn’ Guardian
‘A tale of familial bonding involves encounters with the law, prostitutes, poker tables and unsavoury types, all spooled through Spencer’s filmic narrative…the most memorable sections of Flusfeder’s whimsical novel have the intimacy of a home movie’ Sunday Times
‘David Flusfeder is a stylishly masculine writer, and he pays fine tribute to the tenacious love that somehow binds this unlikeliest of father-son teams’ Daily Mail
‘A classy and original novel – wry, sad, tough-minded and stylishly written’ Al Alvarez
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A hilarious and heartbreaking father-son road movie of a novel.
Spencer Ludwig, idealist and filmmaker, is making one of his regular duty visits from London to New York City to tend to his declining but still fearsome father. Driving back from one of their doctors' appointments, Spencer decides not to take the turn to his father’s apartment: instead, they hit the road. Ahead of them will be an emotional ride taking in police and prostitutes, film festivals and gambling in Atlantic City, as father and son try to make sense of each other’s lives and hearts, and their own. To reach, Spencer hopes, a suitably cinematic conclusion.
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Spencer Ludwig is a fairly unsuccessful film director who takes his ailing father on a spur of the moment trip to Atlantic City. It's like a geriatric road movie and is both hysterically funny and painfully sad. Ludwig's father is a memorable creation who can still terrify and outwit his son when it suits him. Ludwig imagines how what is happening to him would appear if it was in a film but somehow this makes the story more credible even when it is bordering on farce. It would make a terrific movie itself.
I would recommend this highly to anyone who likes authors such as Evelyn Waugh, Edward St. Aubyn etc. As for me I'll be checking out all his other books.
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