The Golden Ticket

He probably should have known something was wrong. After a love affair leaves him unaccountably devastated, Eric Coates leaves his prosperous life in New York to go on a seemingly unstoppable rampage of bad decisions and misguided living that takes him both across the country and to new depths with each passing day. Between closing the bar every night, involving himself in yet another bad love affair, being convicted of a felony, and a final explosive crack up into madness, it seems that his desperate search for the Golden Ticket - call it love or happiness, call it an understanding of who you are - will always leave it out of reach. This fast-paced and harrowing book will leave you wondering how so much could go so wrong so quickly, and when Coates finally does make peace with himself, his solutions will strike you as honest and genuine. The book concludes with three short stories that will confirm for you what some of us already know: that Eric Coates is one of our most promising writers.