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Counterpoint
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 1582434514
EAN: 9781582434513
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Literature and Fiction Literary
In print, FW, the unnamed freelance Food Writer of Nancy
Spiller’s sardonic debut novel, Entertaining
Disasters, lives high on the food chain in the heady
realm of L.A.’s culinary journalism scene. She waxes poetic
about her hip home gatherings, thinly veiling the identities
of her Hollywood guest list. But in reality, FW’s been
inventing the dinner parties she writes about because social
paralysis sets in at the very thought of a real guest in her
fabulous—or is it shabby?—hillside home. Enter the glossy
food magazine editor, new in town, who wants an invitation
to one of her bashes, and the panic-stricken journey from
fantasy hostess to reality bites is on.
Entertaining
Disasters—at turns whimsical and deeply
affecting—chronicles the struggle FW faces in the week
before she hosts her first real dinner party in ages. At the
same time, her estranged sister threatens to drop by, her
husband takes off, and her house implodes. In the way of
Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, Spiller’s book is filled
with the fabulous culinary lore and delicious-sounding
recipes that have made FW’s writing such popular foodie
mania. Now all she has to do is somehow bring this fantasy
world into workaday reality.
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