Sinatraland: A Novel - Tapa blanda

Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post Uncommonly original and engaging...a smart, funny, knowing novel about what it's like to be a certain kind of American man.

Mark Rozzo Los Angeles Times If you were still with us, Frank, you'd sleep the sleep of kings knowing that the art of book writing is safe in [Sam Kashner's] hands.

James Ellory Ring-a-ding! Sinatraland is the postmortem on Frank Sinatra. Sam Kashner pokes, probes, dissects, and undermines the myth and takes us on a deep dunk into the sewer of American pop culture. This is an indictment of the Voice and a gorgeously wrought hymn to the finger-popping twentieth-century loser.

Helen Schulman author of The Revisionist Smart, humorous, original, Sam Kashner's Sinatraland deftly explores the peculiarly tragic aspects of an obsession with a celebrity -- the celebrity, Sinatra -- in a moving, romantic, epistolary, tour de force.

Robert Taylor The Boston Globe Quirky...intelligent...very funny.

Madison Smartt Bell Sam Kashner's first novel is weirder than it sounds, but with wit and charm to match its strangeness. By turns hilarious, perverse, surreal, and genuinely touching, Sinatraland is what one might call an incomparable debut.

Robert Plunket author of My Search for Warren Harding and Love Junkie Regardless of how you feel about Frank Sinatra you will gleefully devour Sinatraland. It's the Old Blue Eyes legend writ small, transferred to the oddly romantic life of "Finkie" Finkelstein. Harrowing, sad, and very funny, it charts the darker and more complex corners of the twentieth-century male psyche.

A witty debut novel tells the story of a businessman from New Jersey named Finkie Finkelstein, who is a lovingly obsessed fan of Frank Sinatra, as his life unfolds in a series of unanswered letters sent to his idol. Reprint.