A Film by Spencer Ludwig

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A hilarious and heartbreaking father-son road movie of a novel.
Spencer Ludwig, idealist and filmmaker, is making one of his regular duty visits from London to New York City to tend to his declining but still fearsome father. Driving back from one of their doctors' appointments, Spencer decides not to take the turn to his fathers apartment: instead, they hit the road. Ahead of them will be an emotional ride taking in police and prostitutes, film festivals and gambling in Atlantic City, as father and son try to make sense of each others lives and hearts, and their own. To reach, Spencer hopes, a suitably cinematic conclusion.

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A Film By Spencer Ludwig, [is] such a joy to readSpencer's own justification of his life as a "real artist", and his reasons for despising mainstream cinema, are perfectly drawn Guardian

A tale of familial bonding involves encounters with the law, prostitutes, poker tables and unsavoury types, all spooled through Spencers filmic narrativethe most memorable sections of Flusfeders whimsical novel have the intimacy of a home movie Sunday Times

David Flusfeder is a stylishly masculine writer, and he pays fine tribute to the tenacious love that somehow binds this unlikeliest of father-son teams Daily Mail

A classy and original novel wry, sad, tough-minded and stylishly written Al Alvarez

Author Bio

David Flusfeder was born November 1960 in New Jersey, and has had his short stories published in numerous anthologies and magazines. His novels to date are A Film by Spencer Ludwig (2010), The Pagan House (2007), The Gift (2003), Morocco (2000), Like Plastic (winner of Encore Award 1997) and Man Kills Woman (1993). He has taught creative writing at Birkbeck College, Morley College, the Arvon Foundation and Pentonville Prison. David Flusfeder is married with two children and lives in London.