The Dakota winters

It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father the famous late-night host Buddy Winter is there to greet him himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy's stalled career a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics to the Hollywood Hills to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson Ted and Joan Kennedy and a seagoing John Lennon. But the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father's professional and spiritual reinvention the more he questions his own path and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant The Dakota Winters is a family saga a page-turning social novel and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large.