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Sewer Balls
No balls? No money? No problem. Just have your buddy hold you by the ankles and lower you into a sewer, armed with a bent coat hanger. There are plenty of balls down there for ready for scooping. And odds are, a couple of them are perfectly good for stick-ball or king-queen. So what if they're sewer balls. Oh, and one more You better trust the guy who's holding you. I mean really trust him.
JFK was shot dead. Oswald was shot "live" on TV. Girls were screaming like idiots over guys from England with long hair going "wooooh." And Sister Fidelis called the girls "tramps" right in front of the whole class. After seven torturous years at Presentation Grammar School, eighth grade was turning out to be more exciting than anyone ever thought it could be.
For best friends Whitey and Vinny, every day was an adventure into a new, forbidden world of hidden kisses, stolen beer, and songs sung by guys with Moe Howard bangs that made the girls get weird. Little did they know that each of those adventures would take them a little bit deeper into a fast, unpredictable world where fun can turn into tragedy in a New York minute.
Set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the early 1960s, Sewer Balls is a blunt, smart, quirky novel of how city kids with no money but lots of imagination make the most out of what they have.
Was it fun? Was it scary? Was it the best time of their lives? Fuhgedahbowdit!
JFK was shot dead. Oswald was shot "live" on TV. Girls were screaming like idiots over guys from England with long hair going "wooooh." And Sister Fidelis called the girls "tramps" right in front of the whole class. After seven torturous years at Presentation Grammar School, eighth grade was turning out to be more exciting than anyone ever thought it could be.
For best friends Whitey and Vinny, every day was an adventure into a new, forbidden world of hidden kisses, stolen beer, and songs sung by guys with Moe Howard bangs that made the girls get weird. Little did they know that each of those adventures would take them a little bit deeper into a fast, unpredictable world where fun can turn into tragedy in a New York minute.
Set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the early 1960s, Sewer Balls is a blunt, smart, quirky novel of how city kids with no money but lots of imagination make the most out of what they have.
Was it fun? Was it scary? Was it the best time of their lives? Fuhgedahbowdit!
285 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1998
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About the author
Steven Schindler
13 books26 followersSteven Schindler's new novel, COVER FOR ME, will be released on July 29, 2025.
Born and raised in the Bronx, Schindler has worked as an award winning writer and producer in television for over twenty years, in news, sports, reality, entertainment and news magazines. Credits include "The Who's Farewell Tour", "Israel and the Palestinians: Will Reason Prevail?" "A Day in the Lives of Melrose Place" "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and 4 Chicago Emmy Awards.
His debut novel, SEWER BALLS, was called "probably the best novel produced by the small presses in 1999" by Small Press Review. His second novel, FROM THE BLOCK, won BEST FICTION at the Hollywood Indie Book Festival. His third novel, FROM HERE TO REALITY, (Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books) was called "REQUIRED READING" by the New York Post and received praise from Jay Leno, Roger L. Simon (The Big Fix), and Publishers Weekly. His fourth novel ON THE BLUFFS was released in 2009.
Schindler's novel, THE LAST SEWER BALL was awarded the GRAND PRIZE at the New York Book Festival at the legendary Algonquin Hotel in July of 2017. HIGH DESERT HIGH, was released in 2017
FALLOUT SHELTER won Best Fiction in the NYC Big Book Awards, 2nd Place in the CIP EVVY Awards, and 3rd runner up at the NY Book Festival.
Born and raised in the Bronx, Schindler has worked as an award winning writer and producer in television for over twenty years, in news, sports, reality, entertainment and news magazines. Credits include "The Who's Farewell Tour", "Israel and the Palestinians: Will Reason Prevail?" "A Day in the Lives of Melrose Place" "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and 4 Chicago Emmy Awards.
His debut novel, SEWER BALLS, was called "probably the best novel produced by the small presses in 1999" by Small Press Review. His second novel, FROM THE BLOCK, won BEST FICTION at the Hollywood Indie Book Festival. His third novel, FROM HERE TO REALITY, (Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books) was called "REQUIRED READING" by the New York Post and received praise from Jay Leno, Roger L. Simon (The Big Fix), and Publishers Weekly. His fourth novel ON THE BLUFFS was released in 2009.
Schindler's novel, THE LAST SEWER BALL was awarded the GRAND PRIZE at the New York Book Festival at the legendary Algonquin Hotel in July of 2017. HIGH DESERT HIGH, was released in 2017
FALLOUT SHELTER won Best Fiction in the NYC Big Book Awards, 2nd Place in the CIP EVVY Awards, and 3rd runner up at the NY Book Festival.
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