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Time Won't Let Me

A Novel

By: Bill Scheft

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Paperback | 28 November 2006

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304 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.93

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The five members of the Truants -- Richie, John, Brian, Jerry and Tim -- graduated from toney Chase Academy in New Hampshire 30 years ago. Before they left, they managed to record an album called "Out of Site." Nearing the age of 50, they learn that a German record collector has paid $10,000 for one copy of their work.

At the urging of Dino Paradise, a grossly overweight and overly avid fan, the Truants aim to reunite and cash in. But miles from the horizon of youth, weighed down by bad marriages and mortgaged ambitions, they will have to get out of their own way to get back together. Richie, a divorce lawyer, will have to tear himself away from seducing clients with his karaoke skills. John, a dermatologist, needs to escape all the would-be patients who drop their pants at parties to ask for his advice. Tim must convince his wife to accept his drum set, which he keeps hidden in the attic the way most guys hide porn. Brian will have to step away from the thesis he's been barely trying to complete for 25 years. And all four will have to track down Jerry, a degenerate gambler/Equal addict who was last seen flying to the Caymans for his bookie with $1 million in cash taped to his body.

And that's not to mention the delusional sister, the anatomically-blessed baker, a couple of vengeful spouses, Les Paul, and former J. Geils lead singer Peter Wolf.

Industry Reviews

"A riotous novel. More fun than a night on the town with Keith Richards, without the ambulance ride." -- Carl Hiaasen

"If only my high school band's album fetched as much on EBay these days, I wouldn't need to have fundraisers." -- Senator John Kerry

"The funniest, saddest, most wonderful book I've read in a long time. Bill Scheft is a genius, a comic God." -- Molly Jong-Fast, author of Normal Girl and Girl [Maladjusted]

"Time Won't Let Me is for anybody with as warped a sense of humor as mine." -- Paul Shaffer

"A laugh-out-loud story of aging rock stars reclaiming their musical ids . . . hits all the right notes." -- Publishers Weekly

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