Background
DiPietro, Francis was born on April 7, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Charles and Marie Amelia (Oliveira) DiP.
(One man carries the weight of Generation X.Kyle Waterman,...)
One man carries the weight of Generation X.Kyle Waterman, a mild-mannered insurance agent from Denver, quits his job and leaves his family to hop the first Greyhound to anywhere. He thought he was escaping, but with the help of a drug-laden Indian named Emerson Redcreek and a macho, arrogant wreck named Bill Capresci, Kyle finds himself transported to the world of Portobello: a Naked Lunch-type universe where gophers talk, drugs are king, and Kyle is the leader of a growing anti-establishment cult called Silverdew Gincane. With members joining at every stop, Kyles cult quickly becomes one of the greatest enemies of the U.S. government. He relocates his people to Paraguay--only to have an army and the ghosts of his past follow and destroy him.A seminal tour de force. DiPietro is on the cutting edge of dangerous fiction with Portobello Road.
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(THE AFTERLIFE OF TRISHA BUMWOOD is a triumphant soap oper...)
THE AFTERLIFE OF TRISHA BUMWOOD is a triumphant soap opera of symbolism and a natural page-turner. Francis DiPietro has created a multi-faceted gem of perspectives and philosophy. To pitch it in one short line: Jesus owns a convenience store. With that as a premise, we soon learn that he has fallen in love with Trisha Bumwood, mother of one and a first-time afterlifer. What is the afterlife? It's not what you might think. Purposes abound, strategy and scheming form potent undercurrents, and the cumulatively addictive viewpoints in narrative weave the most pleasant and intriguing of spells. Indeed, no other novel displays the collective omnipotents of God, Jesus, the devil, and the devil's son with such candor and flaw, clarity and guile. Other puissant parties are interested in Ms. Bumwood too, and she soon becomes the center for the affections of the most powerful beings in the afterlife. What they all don't know is Trisha Bumwood is destined to foil their little game, for she refuses to be a pawn, and ultimately discovers a path that is uniquely her own.
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(Hollywood film classics receive some saucy, naughty spoof...)
Hollywood film classics receive some saucy, naughty spoofing by author/screenwriter Francis DiPietro. Elements from such great movies as "Jaws", "Rocky", "The Untouchables", "Pulp Fiction", and "Night of the Living Dead" are given wild and outlandish new twists and turns. Enter a world where nude zombies terrorize the Amish, octogenarian inmates use timewarp toilets to meet Al Capone, a mutated tadpole marauds a tourist-dependant beach community, and two former hit-men discover a magical bud which holds the key to their fame and their doom. Protypical Hollywood characters are given total makeovers, and mobsters, aliens and anal probes abound...but they lurk where you may not expect them.
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DiPietro, Francis was born on April 7, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Charles and Marie Amelia (Oliveira) DiP.
Student, Harvard University, 1985-1986; student, University Hawaii, 1988.
Author, Francis DiPietro Literary Superior vena cava syndrome, Medford, Massachusetts, since 1984. Contributor Medford Citizen, since 1992, Medford Transcript, since 1992.
(Hollywood film classics receive some saucy, naughty spoof...)
(THE AFTERLIFE OF TRISHA BUMWOOD is a triumphant soap oper...)
(One man carries the weight of Generation X.Kyle Waterman,...)
Chairman Hillcrest Associates, Medford, 1992-1993. Director Community Theatre, Medford, 1994. Contributor National Diabetes Fund, 1997, Handgun Control, 1997, National Children's Cancer Society, 1997, Disabled American Veterans, 1997.
Member American Civil Liberties Union, The Authors Guild, The Authors League American, Academy American Poets.