Terrifically entertaining tongue-in-cheek saga of a young man's fantastic adventures. After he is dismissed from Yale University, Judd agrees to do research for an eccentric Egyptologist, but it is the man's daughter who causes him to stray from his work, ultimately landing him in a jail cell in Iraq awaiting execution. Quirky and altogether delightful fun that may occasionally have you laughing out loud. Author Millard Kaufman wrote the script for the classic Spencer Tracy film, Bad Day At Black Rock.

The brilliant creation of ninety-year-old debut novelist Millard Kaufman, co-creator of Mr. Magoo and twice-nominated for Academy Awards for screenwriting, Bowl of Cherries rivals the liveliest comic epics for giddy wordplay and gleeful invention. Kicked out of Yale at the age of fourteen, Judd Breslau falls in with Phillips Chatterton, a bathrobe-wearing Egyptologist working out of a dilapidated home laboratory. Entranced by Chatterton's daughter, Valerie, Breslau abandons his studies and decides to move in with the eccentric scientist and assist with research. But the work is not what Judd had thought and, mesmerized by Valerie, Breslau follows her to a number of strange locales—a secret attic in her father's home, a Colorado equestrian ranch, and a porn studio beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Judd ultimately makes his way to the forlorn Iraqi province of Assama, ending up in a jail cell from which he narrates the novel, awaiting his execution while war rages on around him.Kaufman's debut is a book of astounding breadth and sharp consequences, containing all the joy, madness, terror, and doubt of adolescence and everything after.

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Imprint: Grove Press
Distributor: Perseus Distribution
Publication Date: 10-01-2008
Pages: 336
Measurements: 8.25in X 5.50in X 10.50oz