Big Phil's Kid — M.M. Parker

"You'll probably get an immense kick out of Big Phil's Kid, a thoroughly delightful story about a boy whose father owns homes in Manhattan, Palm Beach, and Massachusetts, tosses off hundred dollar bills at the slightest pretext, and heads a big, lovable Italian Mafia dynasty....But Larry's rather unusual background is only the icing on the bittersweet side of coming of age in Manhattan, falling in love, finding a place, trying to figure out what's real and what's not...finding out about one of Holden's (Caulfield of Catcher in the Rye) more articulate and amusing successors is a treat."
-Publisher's Weekly