The Shallow Man

Literature & Fiction

Felske, Coerte V.W.

Literary

Crown, Publishers

In a world of beautiful gold-diggers and their rich quarry, Bodicea, the Millennium Girl, and her lovely friends move through the in-crowd searching for kicks, fast times, and extreme wealth while they can still enjoy them

The Millennium Girl

United States

St Martins Pr

Enter a world of beautiful gold-diggers and their rich quarry as Bodicea, the Millennium Girl, and her lovely friends move through the in-crowd searching for kicks, fast times, and extreme wealth while they can still enjoy them. Reprint..

Felski, Coerte V.W.

Word

Callie Carlson has spent her life at odds with the sea. Growing up on the Florida Straits, she blames the Atlantic for her mother's and father's death and the enticement of her younger brother Jeff whom she has practically raised -- the only family member left to her now. When Jeff goes out in a storm, Callie is sure that the sea will finally steal the last of her blood ties. Her frantic waiting and watching on the docks draws the attention of her neighbor, Chase Mattingly. Chase, a swarthy ex-SEAL turned diver, is in a maelstrom of his own. While his body recovers from the pain and rigors of the bends, the result of a recent diving accident, his mind is demonized by encroaching shadows in the night that play tricks on his eyes. Yet, that afternoon he finds it within himself to reach out to Callie... When Callie's brother Jeff at long last returns safe with a salvaged boat in tow, and that boat turns out to be the scene of a murder, Callie and Chase find they must join forces to protect the young man -- from the law, and from the criminals who think he knows to much. Chase agrees, once he realizes the salvaged boat was found in the same spot on the ocean that his mysterious diving accident occurred. Caught between the danger and madness of the sea, Callie and Chase find they have only each other to cling to as they unravel the danger that threatens them all.

Grand Central Publishing

Nick Laws, an elbow-rubber among beautiful people, explores the world of high fashion and finds his greatest challenge in capturing the attentions of models and staying above the darker side of the industry

Crown

The 20th Anniversary Edition, the Author's Cut: 100 PAGES of PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL. Front cover featuring Alessandra Ambrosio; back cover featuring Ana Beatriz Barros, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Irina Shayk photographed by Peter Beard, Giant Polaroid"Tom Wolfe rewrites American Gigolo."-- Kirkus Reviews"The novel is crass, entertaining, slangy, and reeking of sun bronze and the fresh turnover of fleshy delights makes the narrator's decision to become an aging roué instead of a responsible adult seem like an honest, admirable choice. Felske writes like a gigolo and treats seduction as a dirty sport." -- James Wolcott, Vanity Fair"Model Citizen: the story of a man who never met a beautiful woman he didn't like." -- David Kelley, The New York Times Book Review"Favorite Novel: The Shallow Man by Coerte Felske which begins with the line 'I never met a model I didn't like.'"-- Candace Bushnell, Vogue"Coerte V.W. Felske’s novel The Shallow Man turned the fashion world on its head—and introduced the term 'modelizer' into the collective consciousness."-- Detour"A Model Wordsmith."-- New York Magazine"In his first novel, The Shallow Man, Coerte V.W. Felske spins a clever tale of the narcissistic world of fashion modeling. In this comic send-up, Nick Laws is the shallow man whose every thought and word reflect his sole interest in life: boffing models. From the late-night clubs of Manhattan to the art deco bars of Miami, Nick searches for beautiful women totake to bed. He’s so perfect, he’s hilarious. Is there a man with a soul so noble that he has not entertained this fantasy? In real life, no one could stand around all day in his motorcycle jacket and sunglasses, purring platitudes to curvaceous dimwits. But Nick’s relentless, self-conscious pursuit is very funny. Nick reminds us, “Never judge a book by its contents.” Certainly not this book. The Shallow Man is fun, flash, and filigree--a sexy, witty spoof of the Nineties.”–- Digby Diehl, Playboy“Shallow waters run deep. This stunning but unreflective man knows more than you think. Behind those big blank eyes and that deep tan is…well, something that women find hopelessly tempting: a healthy disdain for thinking too much. Since he can’t be bothered connecting the dots, he maps out the politics of the jejune with an easy straight line. Reading the quick-witted prose, one begins to think less about things and more about Thing, the Shallow Man’s tag for the women he dates: gorgeous, seemingly unattainable models. Nick Laws is like Hamlet without the mental baggage, tumbling Ophelia by Act II. Felske’s The Shallow Man makes a case for the unexamined life.”–- Esquire“I may not have been the king of Generation Face,” proclaims hipster Nick Laws, in author Felske’s first novel, “but I was definitely one of its princes.” Nick can’t get enough of “Thing” his catchphrase for impossibly stunning women; his every moment is devoted to bedding them—as long as they’re not Civilians (regular-looking women). Spiked with original Nickspeak and hilarious dialogue, Felske’s depiction of the physically elite is so clever in its anthropological detail that we can forgive his protagonist for just about anything. Besides, The Shallow Man harbors a few glimmers of Nick’s humanity. You just have todig to find them.”-- People“PLAYBOY CENTERFOLD DATA SHEET, 'Favorite Book: “The Shallow Man” by Coerte Felske. It’s about a very shallow man and his involvements with models.'”-–Priscilla Lee Taylor, Miss March, 1996, Playboy -----------------------"Fear not the Shallow Man, For all that is lost is one night."Such is the credo of Nick Laws, the suave party promoter who lives on the other side of the velvet ropes. Nick's world is an exclusive arena of fast-food romances, sex, and mind-boggling glamour. It's Nick Laws's obsession, and he is not in denial about it. "The Shallow Man" is his confession. Welcome to Generation Face... (The Dolce Vita Press, 2016)

The Shallow Man: 20th Anniversary Edition

The Dolce Vita Press

"Tom Wolfe rewrites American Gigolo." - Kirkus ReviewsAuthor Coerte V.W. Felske's Scandalocity comes on the heels of his highly-acclaimed "dolce vita fiction" trilogy: The Shallow Man, Word, and The Millennium Girl. Zeitgeist for the Information Age, the novel is set against the backdrop of the starry lights and glamorous nights of New York City. Defined as "The speed at which scandal, measured in velocity, can turn you into a star," Scandalocity is a sexy, ADHD psychological thriller, and the master of guilty pleasure prose takes on our technology-driven, media-consumed, and celebrity-obsessed culture in a taut, explosive narrative. Protagonist Harry Starslinger is a neurologically disordered online gossip columnist who becomes embroiled in the police investigation of his girlfriend's murder. Like Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, the book takes off in roaring first-person as we ride Harry's spontaneous, insightful thoughts. One of the most connected men in the City, where his high-profile position as a purveyor of celebrity gossip offers him access anywhere, anytime, "Slinger" finds it difficult to founder life-sustaining connections in a rocket-paced world of IMs, iPods and e-mails, social networking sites, and hand-held techie toys. The story unfolds in parallel between the ongoing murder investigation and the burgeoning romance with the victim in the past. There's more murder, a manhunt, and Harry becomes the hunted one. A pulsating page-turner, the novel combines the scalding thematic tones of Odets and Lehman's The Sweet Smell of Success with the suspense and dramatic twists of Kasden's erotic cinema thriller Body Heat. Felske's fourth installment in his "dolce vita fiction" series, Scandalocity crackles with razor sharp vernacular and a lexicon's worth of bleeding edge phraseologies, hallmarks of the author's inimitable life-in-the-fast-lane literature. (The Dolce Vita Press, 2010)Front and back covers by Peter Beard featuring supermodel Irina Shayk on double-exposed Giant Polaroids, 2009---------------------------------------------ACCLAIM FOR THE WORKS OF COERTE V.W. FELSKE"The Shallow Man novel is crass, entertaining, slangy, and reeking of sun bronze and the fresh turnover of fleshy delights makes the narrator's decision to become an aging roué instead of a responsible adult seem like an honest, admirable choice. Felske writes like a gigolo and treats seduction as a dirty sport." -- James Wolcott, Vanity Fair"Model Citizen: the story of a man who never met a beautiful woman he didn't like." -- David Kelley, The New York Times Book Review"Favorite Novel: The Shallow Man by Coerte Felske which begins with the line 'I never met a model I didn't like.'"-- Candace Bushnell, Vogue"Coerte V.W. Felske’s novel The Shallow Man turned the fashion world on its head—and introduced the term 'modelizer' into the collective consciousness."-- Detour"A Model Wordsmith."-- New York Magazine"In his first novel, The Shallow Man, Coerte V.W. Felske spins a clever tale of the narcissistic world of fashion modeling. Nick reminds us, “Never judge a book by its contents.” Certainly not this book. It's fun, flash, and filigree--a sexy, witty spoof of the Nineties.”–- Digby Diehl, Playboy“Shallow waters run deep. This stunning unreflective man knows more than you think. Reading the quick-witted prose one begins to think Nick Laws is like Hamlet without the mental baggage, tumbling Ophelia by Act II. Felske’s The Shallow Man makes a case for the unexamined life.”–- Esquire“Spiked with original Nickspeak and hilarious dialogue, Felske’s depiction of the physically elite is so clever in its anthropological detail that we can forgive his protagonist for just about anything.”-- People“PLAYBOY CENTERFOLD DATA SHEET, 'Favorite Book: “The Shallow Man” by Coerte Felske. It’s about a very shallow man and his involvements with models.'”-–Priscilla Lee Taylor, Miss March, 1996, Playboy

Scandalocity

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Available July, 2016  Coerte V. W. Felske, noted Zeitgeist chronicler of the skin-deep and shameless age, flits, flaps, stretches wings, and struts with his fifth novel, The Ivory Stretch (The Dolce Vita Press, 2016). Frenetic, bedazzling, idiosyncratic, and uniquely original this wild ride of a narrative showcases protagonist Billy Sixkiller who seizes the reader's imagination and forces him to gaze into the heart of the American psyche in the great tradition of Twain, Kerouac, Kesey, and McCarthy. Through Billy, the author launches a revenge tale steeped in the Native American ethos to create a vivid snapshot of conflicted 21st Century America. "Billy Six"--a modern-day Odysseus if not Moses himself--is a larger-than-life anti-hero who takes dispirited road companions on an adventure of a lifetime of his own design, a postmodern Vision Quest of spiritual renewal. Billy slices through the breathtaking settings of the Southwest in a supercharged white limousine, blasting wide the eyes of his unsuspecting roadies--the Parisian orphaned Frenchy and his suicidal captive Roland. Billy kidnaps the dead-souled novelist for a past crime, but a curious relationship develops between the two which is the beating heart of the story. The emotionally recessive prisoner develops an amorous bond with spiritually-starved Frenchy, Billy's former lover. This shifting three-way and unlikely clashing of personalities and intimate motivations staves off predictability and the narrative surprises the reader at every turn. When the trio take to the highway in the stretch limo the novel comprises one of the great road trips found in American literature with echoes of Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Thompson's Fear and Loathing. Dramatic ironies compound as the charismatic, dazzlingly unpredictable Billy, seeking to avenge the murder of his parents, ends up giving his emotionally voided prisoner a new appreciation for life. Billy hauls him across deserts and Indian lands for five sleep-deprived days to peel away a lifetime's layers of anguish and blow the winds of life back into the man's lungs. Perceptive though manipulated, profane yet sacred, gentlemanly but diabolical, and like a bomb going off in a fireworks factory, Billy explodes onto the page spouting his artillery of language like shrapnel. His prescient and irreverent rants border on the Whitmanesque and his outlaw spirit embodies the journeying aspect of the American character; a contemporary equivalent of the searchers in Kerouac's On the Road and Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion. The sexy-feisty Frenchy is another full-bodied personage who evolves before our eyes. Simultaneously thrilling, noirish, crackling and detouring, the electric prose masterfully seasoned with philosophies, historical asides, tribal customs, diaries, and individual paths to enlightenment gives the tome a hightened reality while remaining true to the enchanting milieu of L'Amour and sensibilities of McCarthy to forge a new kind of western. Felske, who previously lasered in on fast lane culture, has gone lyrical, poetic, even classic here, with his boldest and most significant work. The author transports his eye for detail on a different kind of "dolce vita" that is equally sweet but twice as spicy. Like a gun barrel to the back, The Ivory Stretch forces the reader to contemplate the vulgar and divine, entwining sex, lyricism, violence, and spirituality to inspire deeper epiphanies. With its author's mythic vision of a desert death trip that transforms into something more life-affirming, TIS claims its place in the American literary tradition and Billy Sixkiller joins the pantheon of great fictional character creations. Evoking whispers of some of literature's finest, TIS sets the imagination ablaze with an unforgettable, high-octane, adrenaline rush ride which haunts the psyche well after the story's climactic conclusion. An author's literary triumph indeed.

The Ivory Stretch

Available Summer, 2016 Coerte V. W. Felske, noted Zeitgeist chronicler of the skin-deep and shameless age, flits, flaps, stretches wings, and struts with his fifth novel, The Ivory Stretch (The Dolce Vita Press, 2016). Frenetic, bedazzling, idiosyncratic, and uniquely original this wild ride of a narrative showcases protagonist Billy Sixkiller who seizes the reader's imagination and forces him to gaze into the heart of the American psyche in the great tradition of Twain, Kerouac, Kesey, and McCarthy. Through Billy, the author launches a revenge tale steeped in the Native American ethos to create a vivid snapshot of conflicted 21st Century America. "Billy Six"--a modern-day Odysseus if not Moses himself--is a larger-than-life anti-hero who takes dispirited road companions on an adventure of a lifetime of his own design, a postmodern Vision Quest of spiritual renewal. Billy slices through the breathtaking settings of the Southwest in a supercharged white limousine, blasting wide the eyes of his unsuspecting roadies--the Parisian orphaned Frenchy and his suicidal captive Roland. Billy kidnaps the dead-souled novelist for a past crime, but a curious relationship develops between the two which is the beating heart of the story. The emotionally recessive prisoner develops an amorous bond with spiritually-starved Frenchy, Billy's former lover. This shifting three-way and unlikely clashing of personalities and intimate motivations staves off predictability and the narrative surprises the reader at every turn. When the trio take to the highway in the stretch limo the novel comprises one of the great road trips found in American literature with echoes of Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Thompson's Fear and Loathing. Dramatic ironies compound as the charismatic, dazzlingly unpredictable Billy, seeking to avenge the murder of his parents, ends up giving his emotionally voided prisoner a new appreciation for life. Billy hauls him across deserts and Indian lands for five sleep-deprived days to peel away a lifetime's layers of anguish and blow the winds of life back into the man's lungs. Perceptive though manipulated, profane yet sacred, gentlemanly but diabolical, and like a bomb going off in a fireworks factory, Billy explodes onto the page spouting his artillery of language like shrapnel. His prescient and irreverent rants border on the Whitmanesque and his outlaw spirit embodies the journeying aspect of the American character; a contemporary equivalent of the searchers in Kerouac's On the Road and Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion. The sexy-feisty Frenchy is another full-bodied personage who evolves before our eyes. Simultaneously thrilling, noirish, crackling and detouring, the electric prose masterfully seasoned with philosophies, historical asides, tribal customs, diaries, and individual paths to enlightenment gives the tome a hightened reality while remaining true to the enchanting milieu of L'Amour and sensibilities of McCarthy to forge a new kind of western. Felske, who previously lasered in on fast lane culture, has gone lyrical, poetic, even classic here, with his boldest and most significant work. The author transports his eye for detail on a different kind of "dolce vita" that is equally sweet but twice as spicy. Like a gun barrel to the back, The Ivory Stretch forces the reader to contemplate the vulgar and divine, entwining sex, lyricism, violence, and spirituality to inspire deeper epiphanies. With its author's mythic vision of a desert death trip that transforms into something more life-affirming, TIS claims its place in the American literary tradition and Billy Sixkiller joins the pantheon of great fictional character creations. Evoking whispers of some of literature's finest, TIS sets the imagination ablaze with an unforgettable, high-octane, adrenaline rush ride which haunts the psyche well after the story's climactic conclusion. An author's literary triumph indeed.

Dolce Vita Press, The

The Author's Cut : WITH 80 PAGES OF SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: author interviews, magazine reviews, press items and releases, done in scrapbook format ... On the front and back covers: Adriana Lima photographed by Ellen von Unwerth."Chandler for the 90s: (*****) Word is pure 40s cool and paragraphs swing with voiceover rhythms that put Harrison Ford's Blade Runner monologues to shame. Beautiful babes, New York wasps and sleazy zillionaires flit through Word, larger than life and twice as interesting.- Carrie O'Grady, The Guardian (England)"A torrent of L.A. buzzwords and insider cynicism unmatched since Odets and Lehman's Sweet Smell of Success took on Manhattan. The Hell-A hypechat will flick all of your fuses."- Kirkus Reviews "Flashy and dark, this energetic Nathanael West retake offers a rich Hollywood menu of pandering, ambition, power, and retribution."- Publishers Weekly "Magnificent Obsessions: Word, the book Bret Ellis didn't write, is Felske's satire of Hollywood, i.e., 'Star Camp, ' and he does a great job with female movie colony characters."- Playboy"The Shallow Man turned fashion on its head bringing the term 'modelizer' into the collective conscious. With tough-talking Word, Felske is back, red-eyeing it over Tinseltown's turf."- Detour"By page 3 of this sharp send-up of all things Hollywood, you'll be patting yourself on the back for having discovered Word before Variety announces its arrival at a theater near you."- Marie Claire"If We Gave Out Book Awards: Edgiest Boy, Word.. Felske's anti-hero hilariously manages to find some beating hearts inside the hippest Hollywood hyphenates."- Glamour"Word belongs to the growing genre of Hollywood novels in which idealistic filmmakers experience disillusionment and con artists and charlatans occupy the positions of power."- USA Today"Word is winningly told, with often ferocious humor, including a fresh, funny argot. Recommended for fiction collections."- Library Journal"A vicious story of the movie-driven anathema of depth that is L.A, Felske's tale about aching for success and the price of achieving it will remind you why you live in Northern California."- San Francisco Metropolitan"Word, is a jazzy, ironic appreciation of writing, filmmaking, and chasing skirt. In two of those arts, at least, downtown novelist Coerte V.W. Felske seems more than passingly adept."- New York Magazine"The word on Word is all good."- "Page Six," The New York Pos

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The Shallow Man

The Millennium Girl

The Millennium Girl

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The Shallow Man

The Shallow Man: 20th Anniversary Edition

Scandalocity

The Ivory Stretch

The Ivory Stretch

Word: 15th Anniversary Edition