Last Dance in Hoboken

To get healthy, an old man starts to dance. Suddenly his neighbors hate his guts.(Note: Last Dance in Hoboken is short story. It is also available in the author's 10-story collection, Daggyland #2.)* * *Vinnie is an old fart from Hoboken, New Jersey.A city of mozzarella, cheesesteak sandwiches, and freshly sliced gabagool.A city of kneecappers, knuckleheads, meat-cutters, and dockworkers.When a bad ticker nearly kills Vinnie dead, he wises up. He resolves to get healthy, once and for all.He does what any gentlemen of a certain age would do to reverse the long, undignified slide to Fat City.He starts to dance.Now everyone on this side of the Hudson River hates his guts.* * *D'Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books. —Bookviews