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by David Amadio (Author)
For fans of Richard Russo and Stewart O'Nan comes a frank and funny debut novel about the workaday world of an unassuming carpet installer
Frank "Ace" Renzetti has been installing carpet for over forty years, working the upscale neighborhoods of Philadelphia's Main Line. At a time when he should be considering retirement, Frank takes on one of the biggest--and strangest--jobs of his career. The house is owned by a volatile and eccentric divorcee, its rooms teeming with weary contractors, many of whom have been on the job for months. A pampered dog regularly sabotages everyone's work, and the general contractor patrols the site as if it's the border.
--Italian American Herald
"A thousand suburban nightmares converge in David Amadio's perfectly measured debut. But Frank Renzetti can handle it. Frank is more than the forgotten man--he is the forgotten manner of man. It's a great pleasure to meet him again."
--Nathaniel Popkin, author of The Year of the Return
Author Biography
David Amadio teaches Creative
Writing and Composition at Lincoln University, America's first degree-granting
HBCU. His work has appeared in Cleaver, Packingtown Review, Adaptation, Talking
River, Nerve Cowboy, and the San Francisco Examiner. He
belongs to a three-man comedy troupe called the Minor Prophets, which has written,
directed, and produced over thirty award-winning short films. David lives in
suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two children. Rug Man is
his first novel.
