MARC ACITO

Fiestas, infidelidades, desfalcos, madres hippies e irresponsables, padres yuppies, amigos locos...Una novela de humor, sexo, teatro, amistad, música y mucha golfería.Principios de los años 80, Nueva York. Edward Zanni, un talentoso joven con vocacion de actor, tiene que ingeniarselas junto a su grupo de amigos para conseguir entrar en Juillard, una prestigiosa escuela de arte dramatico. Nada la detendra para conseguir sus sueño: ni la extorsion, ni la falsedad de documentos, ni la suplantacion de personalidad, ni siquiera su adorado Frank Sinatra.

In praising the witty high school romp How I Paid for College, the New York Times Book Review said, it makes you hope theres a lot more where this came from. There is. In this hilarious sequel Attack of the Theater People, Edward Zanni and his merry crew of high school musical-comedy miscreants move to the magical wonderland that is Manhattan.It is 1986, and aspiring actor Edward Zanni has been kicked out of drama school for being too jazz hands for Juilliard. Mortified, Edward heads out into the urban jungle of eighties New York City and finally lands a job as a party motivator who gets thirteen-year-olds to dance at bar mitzvahs and charms businesspeople as a stealth guest at corporate events. When he accidentally gets caught up in insider trading with a handsome stockbroker named Chad, only the help of his crew from How I Paid for College can rescue him from a stretch in Club Fed.Laced with the inspired zaniness of classic American musical comedy, Attack of the Theater People matches the big hair of the eighties with an even bigger heart.

A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical and sexually confused New Jersey teenagers larcenous quest for his acting school tuitionIts 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan. Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris Buellertype, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. The fun comes to a halt, however, when Edwards father remarries and refuses to pay for Edward to study acting at Juilliard.Edwards truly in a bind. Hes ineligible for scholarships because his father earns too much. Hes unable to contact his mother because shes somewhere in Peru trying to commune with Incan spirits. And, as a sure sign hes destined for a life in the arts, Edwards incapable of holding down a job. So he turns to his loyal (but immoral) misfit friends to help him steal the tuition money from his father, all the while practicing for his high school performance of Grease. Disguising themselves as nuns and priests, they merrily scheme their way through embezzlement, money laundering, identity theft, forgery, and blackmail. But, along the way, Edward also learns the value of friendship, hard work, and how youre not really a man until you can beat up your fathermetaphorically, that is.How I Paid for College is a farcical coming-of-age story that combines the first-person tone of David Sedaris with the byzantine plot twists of Armistead Maupin. It is a novel for anyone who has ever had a dream or a scheme, and it marks the introduction to an original and audacious talent.