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A witty send-up of aspiring authors on the make--and a hard-boiled mystery involving sex, drugs, and real estate
CR Books
November 2006
On Sale: October 30, 2006
Featuring: Rio; Linda Trane; Wendell Newton
256 pages
ISBN: 1582433569
EAN: 9781582433561
Hardcover
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Steven Carter, who has been called "madly inventive"
(Kirkus) and "darkly comic" (Village Voice),
has a genius for letting his characters speak for
themselves, and here they do so quite literally. Famous
Writers School is composed of the letters and stories
of three authors who are taking a would-be correspondence
course by that grandiose name, and the self-serving
"lessons" that Wendell Newton, their endearingly obtuse
instructor, doles out in response. Wendell's oddball
collection of students include Rio, an alluring blues
singer on whom he quickly develops a crush; Linda Trane, an
unhinged housewife who seems to be stalking him; and Dan, a
truly talented author of hardboiled detective fiction. As
Dan's gritty mystery arrives piece by piece, Wendell gets
hooked on the story--and decides to dress it up in his own
style in order to pass it off as his creation. Gradually the
slender threads of connection between each character become
apparent, even as Wendell's imagination careens out of
control. Carter skillfully weaves these narratives
into a genre-bending romp that is at once reminiscent of
The Jane Austen Book Club and Get Shorty.
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