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Max Wolinsky comes from a family of mostly upstanding salesmen. On the eve of his son’s bar mitzvah, he returns home to Philadelphia, where he plans to put the finishing touches on a not-so-honorable business transaction and then head back to Florida. Nothing, though, goes as planned. Coming home, it seems, means coming to terms with his family. It means facing the expectations of his father, the needs of his stroke-addled uncle, and the adolescent tribulations of his son.
If Max can be civil to his ex-wife, listen to his son, and pull off one last scam so his father and uncle can live a better life, everything might turn out all right. But Max doesn’t figure on meeting Estelle. And he certainly doesn’t count on his uncle, who, unbeknownst to anyone, has his own master plan for the family. Responsible Men lays bare a private world in prose that rings with honesty, intelligence, humor, wisdom, and, above all, humanity.
Wrapped up inside this debut novel about a shady salesman is a warm tale of father-son reconciliation. Like his father, Caleb, Max Wolinsky is a salesman-but he's always had a bit of the con in him, starting with his college days scalping tickets in his hometown of Philly. The bright point of Max's life was his marriage to Sandy and the birth of their son, Nathan, but now Max and Sandy are divorced, and Max is relegated to dropping in from Key Largo for his son's Philadelphia bar mitzvah. Caleb no longer sells, but spends his days taking care of his brother Abe, who has been left nearly mute by a stroke. Even 13-year-old Nathan has it tough: his grandfather is pressuring him to join a kosher Boy Scout troop instead of letting him play baseball. As soon as he lands in town, Max starts a scam involving shares in a nonexistent retirement community-a scam that runs him afoul of some nasty former partners-in-crime. But hope is on the horizon, too, in the form of Nathan's scoutmaster Mervyn Spiller, who has an elaborate scheme to import cheap Boy Scout uniforms from China. If some of these plot elements feel a bit too convenient, Schwarzschild makes up for it with evocative descriptions of his low-rent Philadelphia setting. Worn-out diners, bunker-like synagogues, no-frills bowling alleys, he clearly knows his terrain. Agent, Dorian Karchmar. (Apr. 8) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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Cathy Clethero
reviewed Responsible Men on January 19, 2019
Responsible Men
"I don't get it," Morelli said. "Other women are happy to stay home. My sister stays home. My brothers' wives stay home. My mother stays home. My grandmother stays home."
"Your grandmother is insane."
"You're right. My grandmother doesn't count."
First of all, Morelli sounds like Stephanie's mother right now. Secondly, he's kind of right. Stephanie has a gang after her and they have a hired hitman coming in to kill her. It does seem like a good time to maybe stay safe, catch up on some reading or something. But, Stephanie is not the brightest bulb in the pack. She's determined to put herself in danger by strutting around town like one of those moving targets at the shooting range.
Stephanie isn't smart enough to be one of the ducks. She's that tin can at the bottom.
So, when the gang members graffiti Morelli's house and her car, showing that they know exactly where she is, she freaks out and moves out of his house. She uses an argument they have about her staying safe as an excuse, but really, I can't believe Morelli still puts up with her constant break-ups.
The good news is, Stephanie ends up hiding out at the Bat Cave (Ranger's place). We finally get to see more of the elusive Ranger. And, the more I learn about him, the more I like him.
This is true. We have never seen Ranger and Batman in the same room. Suspicious!
The bad news is, Stephanie is really jerking these guys around. She lives with Morelli, but kisses Ranger anytime she wants? You know what I would think about my hubs kissing another woman? I think he wouldn't survive what I think. Before he kisses her, he would need to get his affairs in order. Arrange his own funeral and such.
That would work...
Here's what I would like to see happen:
Morelli meets another woman and marries her.
Stephanie finds out that Ranger is actually married to a beautiful supermodel.
Stephanie realizes that her hamster, Rex, cannot possibly be a real hamster because he's lived longer than a couple of hamster lives put together. She kisses Rex and he turns out to be a cursed fae that was trapped in the hamster body. He takes her back to his kingdom and keeps her in a glass aquarium, throwing her pieces of pizza crust and cereal each day. (Seems only fair.)
Okay, maybe that's a bit unrealistic. Ranger should be married to an international spy or maybe Catwoman. Better?
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