The Temptations of St. Frank

Seventeen-year-old Frank Grimaldi wants one thing more than anything else--to have sex before he graduates. Too bad his crazy parents, insane teachers, the Catholic Church, and the Mafia are all standing in the way. Imagine Catch-22'sCaptain Yossarian in high school. Imagine Prepwritten by a guy. Imagine the heroes of Superbadas seniors at St. Anselm's Preparatory School for Boys. Imagine the narrator of Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbusas a Catholic. Imagine J.P. Donleavy's The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar Bset in New Jersey in 1970. Imagine THE TEMPTATIONS OF ST. FRANK, a Catholic school coming-of-age novel.