Almost Home
Author: Frank Marcopolos
ISBN (EPUB): 978-0-9834599-3-4
A duel point-of-view book, the chapters change between Barry Budski and Enzo Prinziatta, both of whom are college students and on the baseball team.
Two very different people with a very similar goal: To succeed.
A drunken Halloween party changes Enzo’s life when he pursues a campus beauty all the way into a fraternity house in full-party mode. This is his first encounter with Barry, the president of the fraternity and, with a recently expired stripper, things have just become complicated.
One would expect the plot to focus on this event, but instead finds the two men forming a shaky alliance after pugilistic beginnings.
If you’ve read J.D. Salinger, you’ll feel the same tone throughout this book; one of hopelessness, drudgery, and the inevitable struggle with a coming of age story. Mr. Marcopolos has taken this theme beyond the adolescent years and makes the reader come face-to-face with the beginning of adulthood; those days of feeling like you are going to get what you want by working hard and only if you’d quit making emotional choices.
Two very different viewpoints aptly represented.
It can be purchased here: Almost Home
