Author: David Lamb
Publisher: Woolly Mammoth Books
Pages: 240
Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Contemporary Romance/Multicultural/Humor/Satire
2016 BEST
FICTION-Pacific Book Awards. FROM
THE FUNNY AND NATURALLY BRILLIANT DAVID LAMB, award-winning playwright of
the New York Times celebrated play, Platanos Y Collard Greens, comes
a modern spin on Dickens' classic tale that perfectly combines humor and
romance in a story re-imagined for our digital, consumerist age. This
version of Scrooge and Belle is familiar, yet unlike any you've come across
before. Scrooge, or rather Scrooje, is music's biggest superstar, with one
hundred million albums sold, fifteen million devoted YouTube subscribers, two
and a half million Facebook likes, and twenty-five million fanatical Twitter
followers known as Scroojites. Belle, is a legal shark who gulps down her
opposition voraciously and whose beauty and stunning figure causes traffic
accidents as she zips through the sidewalks of Manhattan stylishly adorned and taking no prisoners.
They never imagined being music's most powerful couple, but that's
exactly what happened when Belle fell head over heels and gave the Coke-bottle
glasses wearing, plaid and stripe attired, scrawny, biggest nerd on her college
campus the ultimate makeover, turning him into a fashion impresario whose style
sets trends from Milan to NY Fashion Week and who can be seen courtside at the
NBA Finals sporting a perfectly-fitted cashmere suit. Then it happens.
Belle realizes too late that she's created a chart-topping monster as Scrooje's
ego explodes and he starts acting a fool. Now, it's been three years
since they ve spoken. But tonight at Hollywood
s biggest red carpet event, with the whole world watching, they'll be given a
second chance. Will Scrooje listen to the ghostly-advice of Marley, his
best friend since the fourth grade, who at the time of his untimely drowning at
his Brazilian poolside birthday bash was as big a star as Scrooje? Will Scrooje
finally do right by his number one artist, Cratchit, a genius comedian, who
Scrooje invariably rip offs every chance he gets? And with twenty-five
million viewers tuned in will Scrooje finally shed his ego, jeopardize his
image and declare his love for Belle, the one he betrayed and let slip away?
Second chances don't often come around. Will Belle even give him a chance?
Mixing heart, soul, bling and romance in a fresh, original satire about
race, class and celebrity worship Lamb establishes himself as one of the most
talented and amazing writers today. And leaves no doubt that the Pacific Book
Awards chose wisely when they selected On Top Of The World as the year's Best
Fiction.
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The First Page
The devil doesn’t wear Prada, he
wears Sean John and I was the idiot who taught him how to shop.
That was what I got for reading Frankenstein
in college. I’d been turned into a mad scientist without even realizing it.
Just my luck, I was a math major and the one literature course I took had
tricked me into creating a monster.
When I first met Scrooʝe, he—like
most humans with XY chromosomes—was a fashion emergency. Awkwardly walking
around campus—lost, desperately in need of a haircut, and for some strange
reason wearing glasses so big he looked like an owl hunting for prey. He was
just plain pitiful.
Though
I have to confess, from the moment I saw him my heart sang a happy song and I
couldn’t look away. Something between us was magnetic.
About the Author
David Lamb is a native New Yorker, born
and raised, bitten with the writing bug since he was in elementary school and
had handwriting nobody could decipher. Like Charles Dickens, David grew up a
poor boy in the big city who found that the pen really is mightier than the
sword. In middle school Lamb's hero was David Lampel whose velvet voice could
be heard reporting the news over David's grandmother's radio. Whenever he heard
him on the radio, David would substitute Lamb for Lampel and pretend he was
delivering the news. Sure that he was destined to be a famous reporter David
was happy to go to a high school with a journalism program. Like most kids, by
the time he finished high school he had a whole new career in mind. After high
school he went to Hunter College and majored in Economics because he
wanted to be cool like that college kid who came to speak at his last year of
high school. He was an Economics major, he was dressed sharp and above-all the
girls thought he was the man! So like any unreasonable high school boy fueled
by overactive hormones David figured if he majored in Economics they'd think he
was cool. After finishing college David went on to law school at NYU, but all
the time writing was still his heart. While working as a lawyer by day, at
night he transformed into a writer and eventually wrote and produced the
award-winning hit off-Broadway romantic comedy Platanos Y Collard Greens. Being
a writer and having the chance make people laugh out loud while challenging
them to think about the world around them, and inspire each of us to believe in
the power of love and our own ability to overcome life's challenges is a great
gift that David truly enjoys and thanks you for allowing him to share with you
in On
Top Of The World (Until The Bell Chimes).
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