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Highlights
- The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty, "shamelessly entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews) 1980s noir.
- Author(s): James Boice
- 208 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Media Tie-In
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About the Book
"Based on the Happy Days television series created by Garry Marshall."Book Synopsis
The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty, "shamelessly entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews) 1980s noir. Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. And Richard Cunningham? Well, Richard Cunningham is having a really bad Sunday. First, there's the meeting with his agent. A decade ago, the forty-something Cunningham was one of Hollywood's hottest screenwriters. But now Tinseltown is no longer interested in his artsy, introspective scripts. They want Terminator cyborgs and exploding Stay Puft Marshmallow men. Then later that same day Richard gets a phone call with even worse news: His best friend from childhood back in Milwaukee is dead. Arthur Fonzarelli. The Fonz. He lost control of his motorcycle while crossing a bridge and plummeted into the water below. Two days of searching and still no body, no trace of his trademark leather jacket, and Richard suspects murder. With the help of his old pals Ralph Malph and Potsie Weber, he sets out to catch the killer. "Readers yearning for simpler times will enjoy this trip down memory lane, which is as comforting as an episode of Happy Days" (Publishers Weekly). Who Killed the Fonz? imagines what happened to the characters of the legendary TV show Happy Days twenty years after the series left off. And while much has changed in the interim--goodbye drive-in movie theaters, hello VCRs--the story centers around the same timeless themes as the show: The meaning of family. The significance of friendship. The importance of community. "Wildly inventive and entertaining" (Booklist), Who Killed the Fonz? is an "irresistible" (New York Newsday) twist on a beloved classic that proves sometimes you can go home again. TM & (c) 2018 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights ReservedReview Quotes
"Who Killed the Fonz? stands tall in a field of television property revivals. James Boice deftly mixes the broad comedy of the TV series with classic noir elements, resulting in an unexpectedly emotional rollercoaster ride that's more than a novelty. Happy Days are here again!" --Andrew Shaffer, author of the New York Times bestseller Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery
"A wildly inventive and entertaining novel." --Booklist
"I must confess that I never watched a single episode of Happy Days during its ten-year run, but reading Who Killed The Fonz? made me wish I had. Thank you, James Boice, not only for giving us a fast-paced, entertaining novel, but for reminding us in these corrupt Orwellian/Tower of Babel times we live in now, that not so many years ago "friending" someone meant much more than just clicking on a mouse, and that doing the right thing, no matter the risk, was looked upon as honorable and something to be proud of rather than as a sucker's game." --Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and The Heavenly Table
"James Boice has achieved a magic kind of alchemy, exhuming beloved characters from our collective consciousness and gifting them with a fate, a future, and poignant inner lives. Who Killed the Fonz? is the best kind of pop-culture hypothetical -- one that imagines, with heart, wit, and smarts, what happens when the Happy Days fade and real life begins." -- Adam Sternbergh, Edgar-nominated author of The Blinds
"Readers yearning for simpler times will enjoy this trip down memory lane, which is as comforting as an episode of Happy Days." --Publishers Weekly
"Shamelessly entertaining..." --Kirkus Reviews
Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .45 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Media Tie-In
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
Author: James Boice
Language: English
Street Date: February 18, 2020
TCIN: 1003467641
UPC: 9781501196898
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-1256
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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