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Johnny Be Good
by Duffy Prendergast
Length: 81,668
Genre: Literary, Erotica, Psychological Drama, Romance, Stream of Consciousness
Series: Intended sequel
Sentence: A woman uncovers her alcoholic husband's erotic affair and throws him out, and he struggles to survive in a world of booze and dive-bars but ultimately meets a predestined fate with alcohol's abyss.
Blurb: A man's wife uncovers her alcoholic husband's erotic affair with a girl his daughter's age. After losing his family, his career, and his lover, he finds himself struggling in a hostile environment in a vain attempt to escape into a world of dive-bars and booze on his way to a date with rock-bottom before finally discovering salvation.
Synopsis: A middle class, middle-aged, borderline alcoholic has an affair with a woman half his age and he comes to realize the sadness of his caged existence as an unhappily married real-estate agent and failed father. His affair is found out by his wife, and he is tossed back into the uncertainty of single life and he quickly latches onto the desperate girl with whom he had his affair. He begins his new life with the hope of a second chance at fatherhood when he finds that his lover is pregnant. But the gravitational pull of alcohol’s addictive nature helps him to destroy this relationship as well and he is left floundering in a lonely dive-bar-world alienated by everyone he cares about. He drinks to forget, finally reaching the bottom of alcohol’s abyss. Realizing that he has failed everyone he loves, he longs for the sweet relief which only death can offer. He is reborn, though, when thrown into a city jail, by a recovering alcoholic who offers him hope, help, and guidance. He climbs out of his misery and looks to salvage something from the wake of destruction that was his life.
Bio: Majored in English at John Carroll University and studied creative writing under Mark Weingartner. Contributing editor for the Sig-Sec quarterly.
Film: This work is a true-to-life drama that will take the viewer on a ride from erotic excitement, to laughter, to sympathetic distress with an ultimate message of hope. It was unintentionally written in cinematic style. |
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NOTE: All material is copyright protected. No portion of this material may be copied or reproduced, either electronically, mechanically, or by any other means, for resale or distribution without the written consent of the author. All copy has been dated and registered with the American Society of Authors and Writers. Copyright 2007 by The Swetky Agency |
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