Trust Fund Kids edition by Tony Thomson Literature Fiction eBooks
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Gracious North Fork, Connecticut - a sleepy WASP backwater - is jolted awake when a mega-rich outsider plans to build a world-class golf resort on a pristine piece of rural real estate. The local trust fund kids vow to protect their cud-chewing way of life, banding together to resist the intruder in their own genteel way. Brute force intervenes in the form of Byron Weinberg, the town's gay Jewish mayor. Because of his unconventional political agenda, Weinberg allows no development in his town. Ever.... Neither gracious nor genteel, Weinberg uses creative methods to stop the golf course - from dastardly tricks to legal shenanigans - and murder. Weinberg is gay but gay like Alexander the Great or Lawrence of Arabia - not your mother's hairdresser. In this black comedy, sex, love, Labradors, galloping obesity and weird town customs complicate the struggle against the golf course. Throw in a nutty radio station and the plot thickens. But all comes right in the end - sort of....
Trust Fund Kids edition by Tony Thomson Literature Fiction eBooks
You get the feeling that everyone in this book is based on someone the author knows. This may not be true, but the characters are so sharply observed and richly lampooned that no matter their quirks, it's easy to imagine them walking around in actual life. Does the author have a son anything like the narrator's son Braddo? He might! "Apart from lacking fur, there is much of a Labrador about Braddo. He gets up happy and hungry and goes to bed full and content. In between he is always ready to play."Thomson is like Garrison Keillor with an edge. All political correctness has been banished, and if there's a laugh to be had at anyone's expense---including his own---Thomson will have it. It's an equal opportunity game, and page after page it makes for huge fun:
"This year they were sporting mauve T-shirts with a large black crucifix on the front and Buggers for Jesus on the back."
When someone comments that the narrator, as a young man, doesn't seem to believe in anything, he replies, "That's not something I need. I'm planning to become a lawyer like my dad."
The town's gay mayor is at work on a "seminal monograph" titled "Frottage, Fisting, and Inherited Wealth: Some Empirical Correlations".
The satire is lighthearted, the prose is fluid, and Trust Fund Kids is a delight.
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Trust Fund Kids edition by Tony Thomson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Poorly written, strangely vitriolic, utterly lacking in plot. Dully and basically unreadable. It is not surprising that it was self-published.
I searched long and hard for a trace of a plot. Unfortunately, there was none. The writing is clumsy and hamhanded, but occasionally Thomson rises to the occasion with a clever caricature of the trustafarians and locals who inhabit the northwest corner of Connecticut. That was the only thing that kept me going to the end of this silly book. If you are not familiar with that part of the globe, don't bother with this book.
I have known Tony since 1967, and have enjoyed this book as based loosely on reality - and people in his life must be recognizing themselves (Gill and I don't seem to be involved, such relief).
It took about 30% of the book before I worked out that North Fork is where he lives.
Good fun, good read.
I was amused from the first, often laughing out loud. Lots of fun, good humored, author's sense of fun charms.
as a native of fictional North Fork and someone tangentially referenced in the book I got a big kick out of it. Not great literature but incisive and extremely funny.
Okay, full disclosure I know the author of this hysterically funny novel. Indeed, I live in the town on which the book is (tightly) based. A slew of howling in-jokes make Tony Thomson’s tale especially funny to his friends in North Fork, but, non-resident reader, do not despair! Thomson’s satirical comedy of manners, class, race, religion, sexual orientation, political persuasion—you name it, Tony goes for the non-PC jugular in all cases—transcends insider trading. Trust Fund Kids rises to the level of Christopher Buckley, off-the-wall satire. It is an incredibly funny book. Download the sample if you find the current price of 99 cents too risky. I guarantee a rollicking roller coaster of witty writing. This book is too funny to pass up. Ask yourself when was the last time you kept your bed-partner awake with mattress-heaving laughter?
I thoroughly enjoyed "Trust Fund Kids," Tony Thomson's hilariously piercing examination of the seedy side of rural Connecticut's uppercrust society, it's, uh, lowercrust society, and how those upper- and the lowercrusts interact with each other was a delight from beginning to end. This is one of those books where some of the characters -- I'll let you decide which ones -- behave in a way that most of us only do in our fantasies. I am slightly alarmed at the possibility that some of what I read came from the author's own experiences and observations.
You get the feeling that everyone in this book is based on someone the author knows. This may not be true, but the characters are so sharply observed and richly lampooned that no matter their quirks, it's easy to imagine them walking around in actual life. Does the author have a son anything like the narrator's son Braddo? He might! "Apart from lacking fur, there is much of a Labrador about Braddo. He gets up happy and hungry and goes to bed full and content. In between he is always ready to play."
Thomson is like Garrison Keillor with an edge. All political correctness has been banished, and if there's a laugh to be had at anyone's expense---including his own---Thomson will have it. It's an equal opportunity game, and page after page it makes for huge fun
"This year they were sporting mauve T-shirts with a large black crucifix on the front and Buggers for Jesus on the back."
When someone comments that the narrator, as a young man, doesn't seem to believe in anything, he replies, "That's not something I need. I'm planning to become a lawyer like my dad."
The town's gay mayor is at work on a "seminal monograph" titled "Frottage, Fisting, and Inherited Wealth Some Empirical Correlations".
The satire is lighthearted, the prose is fluid, and Trust Fund Kids is a delight.
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