After the politics of his prestigious law firm send Ben out on the street, he finds himself playing piano at a waterfront brothel. In his new life, Ben explores the underbelly of peoples desires, fears, compulsions, and dreams.
As Ben moves throughout this new life, he realizes that the women around him are trying to survive and thrive in a world that hasn't handed them anything.
A story of failure, redemption, and human understanding, ?and featuring a cast of characters readers aren't soon to forget, ?Waterfront Whorehouse Pianist?is an fresh and exciting novel.
Steven Sobel is the author ofCollecting SinsandWaterfront Whorehouse Pianist. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD/MBA from the University of Southern California. He has been a lawyer and a businessman, and is still looking for that position as a whorehouse pianist. He lives outside Los Angeles with his wife.
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Praise forCollecting Sins
It would be a sin not to read this book!Collecting Sinswill drain you of your innocence and condemn you to be ever grateful that writers as unblemished by piety and cant as Steven Sobel manage to exist.
Howard Junker, editor,ZYZZYVA
Tackling teenage trauma from a wholly different perspective,Collecting Sinsfollows the darkly comic adventures of the very confused Ben, who is touchingly trying to navigate his way through the late sixties in L.A. Steven Sobel's confident debut novel is so vividly evocative, and his protagonist so honestly etched, you'll be imagining the sequel before it even ends!
Marie Claire