Lying For a Living
by Steve McCondichie
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Pub Date Feb 28 2017 | Archive Date Dec 31 2018
Southern Fried Karma | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
Description
JESSE FEW PEDDLES LIES. His boss and clients order a couple. His married
girlfriend gets a few. His family buys several. But he saves the top-of-the-line
dishonesty to sell to himself.
The forty-nine-year-old suburban rogue focuses on boozing with his golf buddies,
chasing much-too younger women, and surviving the Great Recession that’s
raging across the South like it’s the Big Bank’s March to the Sea. His rambling
approach to life and love is challenged when his boozy mom believes she’s being
stalked by her long-dead first husband and his woebegone son skirmishes with a
megalomaniac preacher.
A cowboy-up moment drives him to decide whether he’ll saddle up and rescue
his loved ones from these imminent threats or retreat to the familiar comforts
of denial, avoidance, and blowing up watermelons
with black market machine guns. This is an irreverent
mid-life coming-of-age story where an unwitting hero
wrestles with his capacity to mature into a bona fide
adult.
A Note From the Publisher
Also available: eBook: $7.99
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780997951806 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Coeur M, Reviewer
This was an interesting read and while the story of Jesse is/was interesting, I must say I didn't "get it". He seemed to always be missing the mark and even in the end, you are lest to wonder if he even gets his last relationship straight or is succesful at anything. He has led to himself for so long, one wonders if he can ever really grasp the truth about himself and the people around him.
Reviewer 277376
This book was at first hard to get into and i did not really like the description of the book. However I continued on and did enjoy the book. Lots of different stories within the plot. My thoughts of the characters changed throughout the book. At first i did not like Jesse then I started liking him. Oddly at first I thought Jesse was a woman! Sad reading about the past for his mother.
Rachel L, Reviewer
I was blessed enough to be able to download a free ebook copy of the book from Netgally using their "Read Now" option(Meaning that I didn't have to be approved by the publisher first) in exchange for my honest review of the book which is as follows:
The concept of main storyline in my personal opinion was a familiar one(a man who seeks to be the hero of his own life, especially given the fact that he knows/accepts that he is/has been kind of an ass to a lot of people) however the characters bring a freshness and a heart to it that made me care about the majority of the characters.
A couple of the subplots dragged on/didn't make a lot of sense even though they kind of fit into the main storyline, two of which seemed to not really get finished. The ending kind of felt rushed I wish that the author would have spent a bit more timportant with it than he did on some of the subplots. Overall I personally rate this book a 6 out of 10 because I liked the characters so much.
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