Spillage

 Spillage

Reviewed By  Ian Banks       March 28, 2024

 

Author  Michael Gross

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 979-8865879305
Publisher:         Independently published
Release Date:   February 2024  

   Website:   https://www.amazon.com/Spillage-Michael-Gross/dp/B0CPX62LND

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It’s the 1970’s, a tumultuous time of change and anyone who live through the era of the ‘Big Apple’, hedonistic lifestyle of those days, hippy culture, drugs and what could be considered as a cultural revolution in societal values, will relate to this wide ranging, witty and fast paced look back down the years, captured by Michael Gross in Spillage.

New York or the ‘Big Apple’ is beginning to crumble at the edges, the gloss slowly but surely being removed, the Nixon Administration is in full swing and the only bright spot in the chaos is the Yankee’s possibly making a major come-back, thanks to their new pitcher Nick ‘The Swan’ Spillage.

But all this is put in jeopardy when Joan, a depressed young woman, develops a major crush on Spillage and is prepared to go to any length to gain his attention in bed and out. So metaphorically, while New York burns, Eliot, Joan’s long-time partner is prepared to do what it takes to get her back: to put his world and that of many others, back where it should be, Nixon and local politics not-with-standing.

Spillage is not a book for everyone, but certainly is reflective of a time when the traditional was rapidly being undermined, rules changed consistently and corruption was on an upward trend.

Somewhat cynical, often fractious and definitely a novel of the 1970’s, when Michael Gross wrote the first draft, Spillage will be a walk back down memory lane, when life was often exactly the way Gross portrays it – chaotic!

Fiction