Into It

ISBN: 0595091326

Author: Pomerantz, Edward

Condition: New

Product Description 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. Review "Avoid CAUGHT at your own peril...A tensely hypnotic tale of sexualobsession with breathless exotic results...Each character is deeplyexplored in the fine script by EDWARD POMERANTZ...See it and I'm bettingyou'll be as hooked as I am." *Rex Reed, New York Observer*"A masterly film that keeps generating tension and psychological force,placing the seamy sexual desperation of film noir right alongside therigorous proprieties of classical tragedy. *Margo Jefferson, New York Times*"Scripted by EDWARD POMERANTZ from his novel INTO IT, CAUGHT has one ofthose rare stories that seems entirely of the moment and timelessly mythicall at once...A gritty masterpiece. Embodies an excellence that is beyondcalculation...One of the season's best."* Godfrey Cheshire, New York Press*"Extremely powerful."*Jeffrey Lyons, Sneak Previews, ABC World News Now*"A deeply moving, powerful work of art."*Jim Moyer, Cover Magazine*"CAUGHT is beyond most other movies. It takes chances and uncovers a depthof human experience other movies avoid. I don't know another movie which sothoroughly pulls you into a world of uncontrollable passion and emotionalconflict...You ride a terrifying edge...Few movies feel so thoroughlyrealized...By far the best film at Sundance. Reaches further and deeperthan virtually any movie I've seen in years...It left me stunned."*Howie Movshovitz, Denver Post*"Riveting. Unleashes a raw power that is quite shattering...Builds inintensity... Tremendous suspense."*Stephen Farber, Movieline*"CAUGHT catches your attention and holds it. Done with shrewdness andimagination. Comes together with a surprising emotional power...Spins itsweb slowly and skillfully."*William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer*"A model of adult drama. A gripper. A climax of bursting power. Deliverswith force."*David Elliott, San Diego Union-Tribune* "CAUGHT is very erotic and the heat of its sexual passion increases thepressure of the fury that slowly builds. The movie is grippingly paced. Itis of mythic proportions and yet as painfully real as the cut of a knife."*Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch*"Shockingly moving."*Steven Talty, Time Out NY*"A diabolical tale of erotic entrapment. Full of sophisticated twists andplot turns."*Bob Fenster, Arizona Republic/Phoenix Gazette*"CAUGHT is intensely watchable...The kind of writing that inspires actorsand holds audiences."*Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee*"Elegant and concise...With its attention to character and carefulexposition that keeps the story moving at a clip, CAUGHT has the intimate,fateful feel of all the best noir of the 1940's."*Richard Rayner, Harper's Bazaar*"CAUGHT will catch you off-guard. It's a raw seductive combination of lovestory and thril