ISBN: 0-88739-421-3
170 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 12/2002
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Sinner's Paradise
Scott Lettieri
When Martin Fante walks into a lesbian bar in San Francisco's Tenderloin district hunting for his aloof yet alluring girlfriend, we know all is not well. But something much deeper drives Martin, a secret that begins to surface as he cares for his dying mother. Martin's torment, for years buried beneath a string of sexual liaisons, his career as a radio news reporter, and a carefree façade, can no longer be ignored. As his mother's health and his relationship with his girlfriend degenerate, that dark secret threatens to bury Martin instead.
Scott Lettieri writes knowingly, with precise and sometimes outraged compassion about Martin's struggle, a journey that takes the reader through the back streets of San Francisco, LA and Martin's psyche. Through flashbacks of Martin's childhood we learn what drives the adult Martin Fante, what makes him stay in an abusive relationship, what ties him to the violence he yearns to escape. The result is a novel that allows the reader to experience how even death can serve the love that makes life worth living.
from Sinner's Paradise:
"...Sarah turned her eyes back toward Paige, staring at her with a soft yet predatory look that silenced the girl. Then she leaned over the table and kissed her. That long, probing kiss reached down into that poor girl's soul. I know that kiss well. I could almost taste Sarah's delicate, firm tobacco tongue. Sarah then gazed off, took a victory drag on her cigarette, and blew long tendrils of smoke toward the ceiling."
Review: "Sinner's Paradise is a defiant, brutal debut novel that rips through one man?s image of family and where redemption and forgiveness wait on the other side."
-Anne N. Marino, author of The Collapsible World
Bio: SCOTT LETTIERI has worked as a journalist for fifteen years and has won numerous awards from radio broadcasting. A number of his short stories and poems have been published in local papers and magazines.
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