{"product_id":"the-ringer-9780060512583","title":"The Ringer","description":"\u003cp\u003eMorton Martin Spell -- a once-brilliant, now-infirm seventy-five-year-old writer -- is sliding into delirium. He thinks Mount Sinai Hospital is an exclusive golf course and his catheter is a gym bag. His only link to reality is his thirty-five-year-old nephew, who makes his living as a hired gun for thirteen softball teams and still goes by the name College Boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut College Boy's body has begun to betray him -- almost as much as his lack of ambition. (His only legitimate paycheck comes from a gig as a laugher on a morning radio show.) Not only that, the Dirt King, a small-time gangster who controls all the replacement soil in Central Park, is after College Boy. As their lives collide, College Boy takes refuge in the arms of Sheila -- his uncle's cleaning woman and a part-time call girl. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then it gets weird. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScheft, Bill:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBill Scheft is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Ringer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Best of the Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e. He spent eleven years as head monologue writer for David Letterman. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317790740754,"sku":"9780060512583","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_36e4c13c-5089-4745-8ecd-e3598cc66ec7.jpg?v=1727540468","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ringer-9780060512583","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}