Balls: A Novel

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 10, 2012

Julian Tepper talks about his first novel, Balls. The story follows 30-year-old Henry Schiller, a songwriter and lounge-player in love with a woman far younger and more musically gifted than he is. His crisis deepens when he discovers he has testicular cancer.

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