Belmondo style
By: Adam Berlin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Belmondo, Jean-Paul, 1933- -- Influence -- Fiction.; Criminals -- Family relationships -- Fiction.; Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.; Marginality, Social -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Single fathers -- Fiction.; Teenage boys -- Fiction.; Gay youth -- Fiction.; Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Jared Chiziver is a single father and professional pick-pocket, devotee of Jean-Paul Belmondo and foreign films, and a suave ladies' man. His son Ben is sixteen, a bookish semi-introvert, a star on his school's track team, college bound and gay. Two things happen that cause repercussions -- Jared meets Anna, a woman photographer he finds engaging and Jared commits a big crime in response to a brutal attack upon his son Ben. The only thing for Jared to do is to leave town before the police find him. Explores the relationship between this unusual father and his remarkable son.