Bøger af David B Lentz

Dr. Rich Proffette of the Wharton School in 1999 discovers the Holy Grail of Wall Street: a breakthrough stock trading algorithm with an uncanny ability to predict stock price movements. His trading model, Market Equilibrium Shock Theory, is widely hailed as one of the great economic ciphers of the 20th century and has rewarded him with a vast fortune amid Wall Street's longest Bull Market rampage. It seems that stock traders everywhere from underworld hackers to global banks and the U.S. government want to seize the precious intellectual property of Rich Proffette. Everyone except the one true love of his life: the stunning, gifted, Wharton research assistant, Katherine North, who invented the model with him. She knows a dark secret that may cost him everything. "The Day Trader" brings you on a random walk down Market Street in the City of Brotherly Love. This comic novel immerses you in the exotic universe of day trading with a jaunt through virtual Wall Street, where investors drive relentlessly to become rich at the risk of their capital despite the odds against them. "Lentz is a novelist whose knowledge of the inner workings of Wall Street and day trading fuels his plots." - Greenwich Time "A talent for blending a compelling story line with pathos and humor..." -The Greenwich Post "A 21st century, digital metaphor."- The Redding Pilot "Lentz's approach to writing is soul driven."- The Weston Forum "He does not manufacture cookie-cutter best-sellers."- The Wilton Bulletin "Super entertainment, a real page turner. Before you know it, you are immersed in the day trader's world and fascinated by the action." - J.C. Ackerman, CEO, Day Trader "For those who have worked on Wall Street or have merely owned a few shares in perplexing markets this book hits home."- Professor Joseph Connolly, MBA, Paris

The sonnet was meant to become a cup to the wine of love. These sonnets with rich, color photography are love songs inspired by the love of a lifetime and are written to resonate. "Sonnets from New England" sing that authentic love is at least one aspect of human experience, which makes life fully worth living, come what may. If the sonnet is a vessel for love, then share love songs from "Sonnets from New England" with someone whom you love. "A world of lovers pulsing, breathing, absorbing, secreting so passionately even angels are envious." - John H. Sibley, Author of "Being and Homelessness" "After reading a few lines you will experience deep and genuine love... This poetry is meant to be read aloud, savored and reread." - Virginia Marciano "One hears in these sonnets the sensibility of a contemporary avatar of Wallace Stevens... Lentz helps us find true north in ourselves. This is the most important connection art can make." - Eric Sonnenschein, Novelist, Author of "Ad Nomad" "The opening quatrain from 'Ireland'... No doubt, Mahon, or even Heaney, would have been pleased to pen those lines." - Gary W. Anderson, Author of "Best of All Possible Worlds" "A charming bouquet of sonnets... nice innovation." - Christopher Bernard, Poet "Beautiful, delightful, meaningful and more importantly bare truth expressed in writing with style." - Goodreads

At Tim Finnegan's Irish wake a Boston advertising executive, Rudy Bloom, and Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus meet for the first time. Bloom's tragically beautiful wife and poetess, Penelope Bloom, is meeting with her rich, handsome publisher, Blaine Boylston, who brazenly covets Penelope. After a witty dinner party with Harvard scholars, Bloom and Dedalus wander into the brothel of Bella Kirke in Boston's infamous Combat Zone. Afterward, at the Parker House Dedalus shares his battle with alcoholism and Bloom confides a life-threatening ailment. At home Penelope is tempted by Blaine but vows to remain faithful. At age 104, Molly Bloom prays in a Dublin church for her lost sons: although neither knows it, Rudy and Thomas are brothers through a common father in deceased Dr. Stephen Dedalus, professor at Trinity College Dublin. Penelope's monologue on men, sex, love and fidelity is interwoven with ancient Molly Bloom's moving prayer for reunion with her lost sons in America, as the sky brightens on the Father's Day of Bloomsday.

"Essential Lentz" is a compendium of the published writing of David B. Lentz spanning his creative writing career since his college days at Bates. His collected works in "Essential Lentz" feature generous excerpts from his literary novels, stage plays and poetry. CONTENTS From "The Silver King: A Novel" (2000) From "Bourbon Street: A Novel" (1982, 2001) From "The Day Trader: A Novel" (2001) From "Bloomsday: A Tragicomedy" (2004, 2010) From "AmericA, Inc.: A Novel" (2007) From "AmericA, Inc.: A Stage Play" (2008, 2010) From "For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel" (2010) From "Bloomsday: The Bostoniad" (2010) From "Old Greenwich Odes: Collected Verse" (2010) From "Novel Criticism: How to Critique Novels Like a Novelist" with "A List of a Novelist's Top 100 Novels" (2011) From "Sonnets from New England: Love Songs" (2014) From "Sonnets on the Common Man: New Hampshire Verse" (2015) From "The Fine Art of Grace: A Novel from the 2016 Yale Writers' Conference Version

This tragicomic epic brings to life in America the enduring masterpiece of Homer's "Odyssey" and the Irish saga of Joyce's "Ulysses" in a Father's Day in Boston after the Vietnam War in 1974. This new "Bostoniad" portrays the American immigrant descendants of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus of Dublin. After Tim Finnegan's Irish wake Rudy and Penelope Bloom of Beacon Hill meet Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus. "Bloomsday" narrates in a pixilist style a chorus of New England voices blending to render new verses of the greatest epic of antiquity and the 20th century's most celebrated literary novel on the legendary wandering home of Odysseus after the fall of Troy. "'Bloomsday', an American 'Ulysses, ' is a literary feast, a gem of a novel." - Leonard Seet, Novelist "This is an astonishing book... Lentz has accomplished this feat not only with prodigious erudition, but also with a delicate whimsy and an exquisitely chiseled poetic language. For this is a poetic prose of the first order - lyrical and learned, but brought down to earth by the real particulars of modern life and enlivened by punning, rapid-fire repartee... But here's the crux of the matter: this is a major work by a major writer and sophisticated readers will relish it... A masterpiece." - Terry Richard Bazes, Novelist "This novel is a wow... with a humorous, shrewd, heightened language, like Oscar Wilde on crack. At times the novel reminded me of the best of J. P. Donleavy... I am a little in awe of what Lentz attempted here-and accomplished! This is a grand achievement." - Corey Mesler, Novelist "This novel was a delight and I didn't want it to end. 'Ulysses' is a masterpiece, but I enjoyed reading this book much more than 'Ulysses'... A literary masterpiece... Laugh out loud comic moments, moments of touching tenderness and the language is a delight. You must read it." - Paul Raymond Smith, Goodreads "A highly entertaining book that can be enjoyed simply on the merits of Lentz's remarkable command of the language and his ability to turn a phrase." -- Gary Anderson, Author of "Animal Magnet: A Novel" "Lentz's approach to writing is soul driven." - The Weston Forum "This is just such a striking read. I definitely would recommend it." -- Kyrsten Burroughs, Goodreads "Picaresque and picturesque, 'Bloomsday' succeeds... The dialogue is masterful. It will have you smiling." - Times Chronicle "Challenge readers seeking a richer literary experience outside the mainstream, as Joyce did." - The Greenwich Post "I'm sitting in my kitchen transfixed! It is hilarious... It's so good, I hate to have it end... Totally delicious." - Agnes Potter "If conditions of life are timeless and universal, those myths that embody them must be, as well... Strains of Joycean music imbue many moments in 'Bloomsday' with beauty and gravitas, inviting us to heed the details of the world and recognize the value and potential in our lives -- to make them mythic... It is to his credit as a novelist that the world Lentz has conjured in 'Bloomsday' is new -- a synthesis of Joyce and American optimism. We hear reverberations of 'Ulysses' but none of its dark pessimism... 'Bloomsday: The Bostoniad' does what fiction should. It transports the reader to another place, where life unfolds exotically enough to entertain us. And while it works on many levels, and will excite Joyce lovers, no prior reading list is required to enjoy 'Bloomsday.' It pays tribute to its forebears but sings in its own voice." - Eric Jay, Novelist "Style as Text" Listopia on Goodreads: "Bloomsday' Ranks 11th "Books with Goodreads Average Rating over 4.5 (Out of 5)" Listopia: 'Bloomsday' Ranks 30th

America's literary legacy is essentially defined by best-seller lists but without them, how would readers of "serious writers" know what to read? If we don't recognize our literary genius, then do we risk being relegated to the collective rag and bone pile of national literary mediocrity? Will future generations look back and wonder: was this really the best literature which America was capable of publishing? "Novel Criticism" offers readers of serious writers a better way to discern the best literary novelists and to cull their work from mainstream, commercial best-sellers. Lentz's new model to criticize, review and rate novels online like a literary novelist adds his rich list of "A Novelist's Top 100 Novels." "Challenges readers seeking a richer literary experience outside the mainstream." -- Greenwich Post "His writing is on a higher plane for a higher purpose." -- Wilton Bulletin "Lentz explores... the role of a talented individual, an artist ... in a complex, vast society." -- New Canaan Advertiser

Epic "Bourbon Street" portrays the rise of a gifted, young and penniless photographer named Aeneas who wanders Bourbon Street to photograph in black-and-white the images of ancient, legendary jazz players. Discovered by an Uptown debutante, Aeneas transforms into a portrait photographer of New Orleans' aristocracy. "Bourbon Street" is a gallery of vivid portraits of the chimeras of Aeneas. Illuminating, white hot comedy and dark, existential contrasts blend pixels into fine prose about the quest for a better life based upon one's dreams. "Bourbon Street" beckons you to the gallery of the dreams of Aeneas in the French Quarter of New Orleans. "Told through the vehicle of the tale, it is like a street-car rattling past the bars and drunks and jazz and creeping vegetation, the lonely souls, the nectar-draw of sex, the steaks and bourbons, that combine to make 'Bourbon Street' a wonderful book and cement the place of Lentz as a writer of formidable scope and ability." - Bruce McLaren, Author of "The Plain of Dead Cities" "Lentz has a talent for blending a compelling story line with pathos and humor, a measure of literary and historical allusion, and vivid imagery. The result is the literary equivalent of high definition -- the reader is bombarded with rich text that infuses the senses." -- The Greenwich Post "His pixilism is a sort of 21st century, digital metaphor that has similarities to French Impressionist paintings. Each sentence represents an idea, image or treatment of the big picture." --The Redding Pilot "Lentz especially likes to explore how creative people survive and contribute in a large and often impersonal environment. What is the role of a talented individual, an artist for example, in a complex, vast society?" -- New Canaan Advertiser "His writing is different because he does not manufacture cookie-cutter best-sellers." -- The Wilton Bulletin "Lentz's approach to writing is soul driven." -- The Weston Forum "A journey: if you know what it means to miss New Orleans, then you really should read this book." -- Yvonne LaFleur "Hot as a New Orleans' summer." -- John A. Taylor, Jr., CLU

The Silver King portrays the intrigue within the underground movement of the Contras seeking the first democracy for Nicaragua. This miracle of freedom is shaped by Sheridan Quince, an American pilot and fisherman, who aspires to catch-and-release a world-record tarpon, or silver king, with a fly rod in the Caribbean Sea. After meeting at the Key Largo Bar in San Jose, Costa Rica, Elsa Paraiso leads him underground into the power struggle between the US-backed Contras and Sandinistas, financed by the USSR. The players are Ronald Reagan, Oliver North, Fidel Castro, Oscar Arias, Daniel Ortega and Violeta Chamorro, who seeks election as one of the first women Presidents of a nation in the Western Hemisphere. The Silver King is a tale of political power plays and high finance among the tropical rainforests, beaches and money centers of Central America. The story traverses San Jose, the Caribbean, Panama and Managua under siege. The Silver King chronicles the genesis of democracy in our time. It is a worthy tale about the value of a free society to a nation of four million people gripped in a desperate struggle to build one.

Bruce Warrick is a young, Harvard MBA with a new position for a global firm in New York managing a Top 50 hedge fund. Despite newfound wealth, a beautiful family and a home in Greenwich, this investment genius suffers from a debilitating sleep disorder. His powerful CEO compels Bruce to join a private, hedge fund association -- the Keynes Society at the Harvard Club of New York. Bruce learns that the Keynes Society privately controls $1 trillion in assets in a dark pool under an enigmatic Board of global elite. When his firm tells him to trade stocks illegally at the Keynes Society, he may blow the whistle. But why risk paradise on earth against such intimidating power? What is the net asset value on Wall Street of one's soul?

In this rich, dark comedy the USA has evolved in 2020 into a global corporate nation or "corpornation." Sub-divided by a great, brick wall into the northern Bluefish and southern Redfish States, AmericA, Inc. is run by Travis Bash, President + CEO. Perpetually at war, its Supreme Court disbanded, riddled by lobbyists and voracious for capital, Bash drafts Bob, a destitute Yale poet, to transform America, Inc.'s corporate culture. Bob's job is to market to shareholders the vulgar, bewildering and corrupt culture of this brutal corporate nation to increase share value. Nothing is sacred in corporate America or American culture in this hilarious cautionary tale about a corpornation gone berserk in its relentless pursuit of self-interest and profitability. In a blend of high and low comedy, AmericA, Inc. rings true in a witty, merciless lampoon of the omniscient intrusion of the savage greed of big business into culture, politics, law, religion and everyday life. Lentz innovates with an accessible, darkly comic script to bring characters to life onstage in satire. In AmericA, Inc. Lentz extends the literary bloodline of the rich satire of Gaddis, Beckett, Orwell and Moliere.

Simple, elegant, original poetry about life in a gloriously beautiful, New England town on the coast of Long Island Sound with color photos. The poetry portrays everyday life in Old Greenwich in seeking sea glass, Back Country stone walls, equestrian pursuits, village life, views from walking the shores of the Sound and true love. The full-color photography is tender, evocative and adds depth to the lyrical voice of the poetry.