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Carlos Angelo, a sixty-two-year-old Italian man, works as an elevator operator in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was his first and only job in the United States, after nearly four decades in the country. He is known throughout the company as a dedicated, loyal and likeable employee who has received numerous "Employee of the Month" awards over the years. When his employer adapted to new technologies and fired him, he became depressed. What future would he have if he didn't know how to do anything else?
When the elevator in a building in the 1950s is modernized, a young resident misses the operator.
Balladeer of the city's broken and forgotten men, Joseph G. Peterson looks for inspiration in urban side streets and alleys, where crooked schemes are hatched, where lives end violently, and where pretty much everyone is up to no good. Depicting the lives of people who have woefully lost their way in the world—criminals and victims, the unemployed and unemployable, the neglected and the indigent, the lonely and the alone—Peterson nonetheless brings a poet's touch to his work, which is redolent with allegory, allusion, and Nabokovian wordplay. His last novel, Beautiful Piece, garnered praise from across the literary spectrum. Enter Wanted: Elevator Man, his powerful and ambitious new novel and the story of Eliot Barnes Jr., a man at the end of his proverbial rope. Haunted by the larger-than-life shadow of his father, a scientist who may have helped develop the atomic bomb, twenty-nine-year-old Eliot Barnes, Jr., is an apple that's fallen far from the tree. Saddled with a useless degree in literature, caged in a rundown apartment he can't afford, and embittered by his failure to live up to the future's promise, Barnes, who dreams of a corner office—an aerie roost high above the city, working with the higher-ups—begrudgingly accepts a job as an elevator man in a downtown Chicago skyscraper. Thus begins a profound but comedic meditation on failure in this life, how one comes to terms with not achieving one's dreams, the nature and origin of such dreams, and, fittingly, the meaning of the American dream itself. As unflinching as Nelson Algren and as romantic as Saul Bellow, Peterson's novel boasts wildly surreal plot twists and a lethal wit that frequently erupts into full-on hilarity. Wanted: Elevator Man is the perfect tale for learning to cope with diminished expectations in these dark and desperate times.
Is it just another day in the life of ex-lawyer, Michael Rice, as he approaches the age of 60? To escape a situation he finds unbearable, Michael decides to sell his health food store, and contrives The Selling Party as a means to that end. But can the loose threads of his life be so easily tied together? Will he be able to get out of the bed he made, to wake up to the life he dreams of? Can his failed marriage, distant son, deceased parents, Jewish heritage, and the various and divergent strands and loves of his life be reconciled? Can he overcome his limitations, or is he but a pawn in the hands of fate? Join Michael on this adventurous, exhilarating, sometimes sad and often humorous journey over the mountains and molehills of his urban existence in Southern Ontario. Is The Selling Party fact or fiction, or merely a fantasy in Michael’s mind?