Cocktails & Books: Man of the Year by Lou Cove

Description

Author Presentation • Book Signing • Cocktail Reception

About the Book:

In 1978, twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts. He believes all is lost until he meets his father's friend, Howie Gordon, from California and his beautiful wife Carly. Howie is everything Lou wants to be: handsome as a movie star, built like a god and in possession of an unstoppable confidence.

Over Thanksgiving dinner, Howie holds up an issue of Playgirl Magazine, he flips to the center and there he is, Mr. November in all his natural glory. Howie has his eye on becoming the next Burt Reynolds, and a wild idea for how to do it: win Playgirl’s Man of the Year. And he knows just who should manage his campaign. As Lou and Howie canvas Salem for every vote in town – little old ladies at bridge club, the local town witch, construction workers on break and everyone in between – Lou is forced to juggle the perils of adolescence with the pursuit of Hollywood stardom. Man of the Year is the improbable true story of Lou’s thirteenth year, one very unusual campaign, and the unexpected guest who changes everything.