The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy Series by Eric Kraft

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  • Herb 'n' Lorna (The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy #2)
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    Herb 'n' Lorna (The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy #2)

    Eric Kraft

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1988

    On the surface Herb and Lorna Piper are typically sunny 1950s American adults. Herbs sells Sudebakers to the citizens of Bebbington, a Long Island seaside town, and Lorna is his cheerfully coy and clever wife. Their story seems like an American small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression trials, postwar prosperity... more

  • Reservations Recommended (The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy #3)
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    Reservations Recommended (The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy #3)

    Eric Kraft

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 1990

    Reservations Recommended is many a satire of the critical mind; a dark commentary on contemporary culture; a story of midlife crisis; a morality play; and a book that matches bleakness against humor with a grace rare among contemporary writers. Matthew Barber is a pseudonymous Boston restaurant reviewer who between (and sometimes during) meals at local eateries conducts affairs with ladies of his acquaintance -- affairs mental as much as carnal... more

  • Flying (The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy #10)
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    Flying (The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy #10)

    Eric Kraft

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2009

    Critics have compared him to Proust, Pynchon, and Fred Astaire--an artful, slyly intelligent, wildly inventive observer of Americana. Now Eric Kraft has landed an ambitious comedy set both in our present and in an alternative 1950s universe--"Flying."It is the tail end of the 1950s, and in the town of Babbington, New York, a young dreamer named Peter Leroy has set out to build a flying motorcycle, using a design ripped from the pages of "Impractical Craftsman" magazine... more

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