A Comedy of Dreams

By Neil Hetzner

Everyone has a dream. For Giacomo Pasquale, the new don of a Brooklyn mob, it is to restore the financial glory of his gang by going into new businesses. For Pasquale's disinherited gay son, Angel, it is to see his lover, Brice, starring on Broadway. For Mort Apple, a down-on-his luck theater producer, it is to have a shot at making enough money that he won't starve to death in his old age. For Pasquale's wife, Carmina, and mother-in-law, Nonni, it is to save the blighted church where they have been parishioners for decades. For Father Paulie, it is to show his uncle, Bishop Bigotti, just how much a can-do priest can accomplish. For the beautiful but embittered Immaculata it is to be the first female in Pasquale's mob. Toss in a shrink who won't stop talking, a 400 pound self-smitten mobster wannabe, a rabbi looking for a convert and a gang that is dead set against letting go of their old ways and it will take a miracle to make these dreams come true. A miracle which just might be on its way

• Language: English
• Publisher: Neil Hetzner
• Release date: Feb 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310238499

Neil Hetzner

Neil (aka C.N.) Hetzner is married, has two children, and lives a mile from the edge of the continent in Rhode Island. Since his inauspicious birth in Indiana in 1948 he has worked as a cook, millwright, newspaper columnist, business professor, vacuumist, printer's assistant, landscaper, railroader, caterer, factory worker, consulting editor, and, currently, real estate agent. In addition to working, which he likes a lot, and writing, which he likes even more, he enjoys reading, weaving, cooking, and intrepidly screwing up house repairs. His writing runs the gamut from young adult futurism to stories about the intricacies of families; however, if there is a theme that links his writing, it is the complicated and miraculous mathematics of mercy.

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