More Fun Than Bowling
by Steven Dietz

Name: More Fun Than Bowling
Brand: Steven Dietz
SKU: 9780573691508
Rating: 3.83 (19 reviews)

More Fun Than Bowling Book Cover — More Fun Than Bowling Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Exterior Set American Comedy

Synopsis

Jake owns the bowling alley in a small Midwestern town.

He is sitting on a hilltop where two of his three wives are buried Lois was zapped by lightning while carrying a bowling trophy in a thunderstorm and Loretta was killed by a ball return machine where he comes to ruminate.

In his younger days he was a promising concert musician but a foul tip baseball broke his fingers which subsequently healed into a perfect bowler's grip.

Jake replays the key frames of his life and, from time to time, is visited by his daughter Molly who has become adept at talking women into marrying her father for love and free lane time.

But who is that nattily dressed man with dark glasses and a revolver lurking nearby?

Themes English drama PS3554.I385 M6 1990 United States

Press Reviews

"A very funny and eccentrically philosophical comedy. Mr. Dietz is a...writer with a distinct comic voice. He shows us that life and certainly death is a lot like bowling. For every experience, there seems to be an appropriate bowling expression just waiting to be applied. And for those who thought that bowling was merely a matter of rolling a ball and knocking down some pins, there is an Act II description of the zen of bowling that will change your thinking forever...In addition to inventing vivid cartoonish characters and giving them wacky tragic actions, Mr. Dietz is a master of the comic monologue."
— The Washington Times