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Lucky Leonardo
Lucky Leonardo
Lucky Leonardo
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Lucky Leonardo

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Leonardo Cook, practicing psychiatrist, is experiencing a delicate emotional phase. His wife has left him for another man, his patients are boring and he's feeling somewhat guilty about his relationship with his girlfriend, a Starbucks employee half his age. And he may be on the verge of another nervous breakdown.

When Leonardo is called upon by a friend to talk a tech genius out of making public a secret new innovation—and the tech genius ends up jumping out of the window—Leonardo's life takes flight on a roller-coaster of disaster.

Making a darkly hilarious debut, Jonathan Canter gleefully builds a small Massachusetts town filled with the interrelated lives of fantastically neurotic characters—and at their center, poor, "lucky" Leonardo. Fast-paced and laugh-out-loud funny, Lucky Leonardo is not to be missed.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherSourcebooks
Release dateSep 1, 2004
ISBN9781492621195
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    A decent read. The prose's simplicity is its best feature. Not simple with tightness, elegance and punch like Gogol or Hemingway, but lacking in extraneous adjectives, verbage, and pretention. I didn't find it particularly funny, there was only one laugh out loud in the whole book. It also broke my cardinal rule of writing about characters' dreams - I can't think of a more boring and obvious way to throw out symbolism or some other messaging. The story is a good one and the pace is excellent - it made me want to keep reading. It was not tiring, nor boring, and because the writing is straightforward one can read it fast with gusto.

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