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.

Kicked out of Yale at age 14, Judd Breslau falls in with Phillips Chatterton, a bathrobe-wearing Egyptologist working out of a dilapidated home laboratory. There, young Valerie Chatterton quickly leads Breslau away from his research and into, in order: the attic, a Colorado equestrian ranch, a porn studio beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and a jail cell in southern Iraq, where we find him awaiting his own execution while the war rages on in the north. Written by a 90-year-old debut novelist, ex-Marine, two-time Oscar nominee, and co-creator of Mr. Magoo, Bowl of Cherries rivals the liveliest comic novels for sheer gleeful inventiveness. This is a book of astounding breadth and sharp consequence, containing all the joy, derangement, terror, and doubt of adolescence and modern times.

Imprint: McSweeney's
Distributor: Perseus Distribution
Publication Date: 08-28-2007
Pages: 288
Measurements: 9.00in X 6.00in