Change at Jamaica
Subtitle: a novel
By: Marshall Messer
Publisher: BMA Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Monterey, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781930589339
Subjects: Fiction; Horse racing; Racetracks (Horse racing); Triple Crown (U.S. horse racing); Belmont Park (Elmont, N.Y.)
Description: "Grab a pack of KOOLs, rev up the Camara, and tune in "Stairway to Heaven"--You're day-tripping back to 1973. That's the summer Eddie Sacks, having flunked out of college, is driving a cab and trying to figure out exactly who and what he wants to be. The only place he finds common ground with his Nixon-loving, cigar-puffing dad (a.k.a. the Captain) is at Belmont Park, where Secretariat makes his historic bid for the Triple Crown. Into the mix throw the Captain's brother, Gene, of the Qiana shirts and rabid sexual imagination, and Gene's sultry daughter, the aptly named Randi. Meanwhile, paralyzing decisions loom, until the moment when Eddie is forced to take the measure of the father he fears and the uncle he pities, and finally define himself."--Page 4 of cover.