Into It - Softcover

Pomerantz, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595091326 ISBN 13: 9780595091324

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

This powerful short novel introduces a writer of extraordinary accomplished talents, a highly developed craftsman with a keen mythic edge to his fiction. Nick, the young narrating protagonist of Into It, on the run from a traumatizing mother, falls in with a middle-aged couple, Joe and Betty, who operate a fish market, and becomes their surrogate son. Their actual son, a frustrated TV comic named Danny Dime, is marooned in the southwest and has been forced to hire himself out to the FBI or CIA, he is not sure which, and has taken to sending his parents increasingly bizarre and obscene videotapes of himself and his family. Nick, a carefree Oedipus through Bettys overindulgence, tries to cope with Dannys self-destructive madness when Danny returns home, fleeing from his implication in a catastrophic military exercise. Before Nick can extricate himself from this Freudian tangle, Danny has destroyed not only himself but his son and parents as well, with an assist at the end from goodfellow Nick. Pomerantzs dexterity and control throughout are remarkable; his bravura talents infuse his strong tale with warmth as well as irony, wild humor as well as horror. He has given us a coruscating fable of the underside of the American Dream.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Pomerantz has written two plays, Brisburial and A Long Story, as well an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel, Tragic Ground, called Shenanigans. In addition, he has written over thirty commissioned screenplays and teleplays for movies and TV. He has received several grants and prizes for his playwriting. Pomerantz's screenplay, "Caught" is based on Into It and released by Sony Pictures Classics.

*CAUGHT, *written by Edward Pomerantz, based on his novel *INTO IT, *was
directed by Robert M. Young, with Edward James Olmos and Maria Conchita
Alonso in the starring roles. A Centerpiece Premiere at the Sundance Film
Festival , *CAUGHT* was released
theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics and nominated for three Independent
Spirit Awards. It is available on DVD on Amazon.The original
soundtrack, composed and performed by Chris Botti, is available on CD.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595091326
• ISBN 13: 9780595091324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160