"From The Block" 

2003 DIY Book Festival Winner- Best Fiction

A novel by 

Steven Schindler

Fast!  Funny!  Furious!

     From the wild Irish pubs of the Bronx, to the bizarre world of the underground video art scene in SoHo, to the sleazy battle-zone known as television news, “From The Block” captures the hearts, minds and souls of best friends and worst enemies as they each pursue their own visions of heaven and hell.

     Every journey begins with a first step, but Jerry Pellicano’s began with a cosmic ice-ball right in the kisser.  And what started out as an idle quest for sex, full-time employment and the perfect egg-cream suddenly becomes a desperate pursuit for meaning and justice, guided by the spirit of a gentle, departed soul.

     Hang on to your barstool as the locals at “Third Base” take you for a ride on the mean streets of New York in the late 1970s where every day seems to ask the question: “Am I selling out…or buying in?”

      From The Block is the second novel from Steven Schindler, whose first novel, Sewer Balls was called, “…probably the best novel produced by the small presses in 1999”, by The Small Press Review.

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