Nobody Likes a Fat Jockey
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I used to tell myself that life was only a movie. If things went wrong, just hang on. Pretty soon, the movie would end, the credits would roll across the screen, the lights would come up and we’d all go home. I couldn’t convince myself of that on this particular day, though. No, on this day, if things went bad, the lights wouldn’t come up and we all wouldn’t be going home. At least I wouldn’t be going home.
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About the Book
Rocky Scarpati is a young, narcissistic womanizer and theatrical-school dropout who believes in the old Shakespearean adage that the world is a stage and everyone is playing a part. Rocky chooses his parts with wild abandonment and pursues them with vigor. First, he’s the tough young kid seeking fame and fortune in the prize fighting ring. Then he’s the dedicated and hard-hitting newspaper columnist who seeks to change the world with his words and, finally, a role he never sought; a murder defendant on trial for a crime he never committed. But is he as guilty as the thug who did? Nobody Likes a Fat Jockey is the tale of a prize fighter and wanna-be actor who dares to live his dreams and face the consequences, even when they threaten to crush him.
About the Author
Bobby Townsend is a former prize fighter, newspaper reporter and columnist. He then went on to be a union negotiator and organizer for the Newspaper Guild of New York. Now retired, he resides with his wife, Ronna, in Florida. Together they have six children and eight grandchildren. Nobody Likes a Fat Jockey has been his labor of love for the last 25 years and he is thrilled to finally bring it to print.