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How I Became A Famous Novelist
Steve Hely
Grove Press, Black Cat
July 2009
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Featuring: Pete Tarslaw
224 pages
ISBN: 0802170609
EAN: 9780802170606
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In this blistering evisceration of celebrity culture and
literary fame, a roguish loser sets out to write the
best-sellingest best seller of all time. When he actually
pulls it off, he winds up tearing like a tornado across
America’s cultural landscape.
What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount
of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity;
the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend
his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting
at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic lake;
and—perhaps mostly importantly—the chance to
humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her wedding. This is the
story of how he succeeds in getting it all, and what it
costs him in the end. Narrated by an unlikely literary legend, How I Became A
Famous Novelist pinballs from the post-college slums of
Boston, to the fear-drenched halls of Manhattan's publishing
houses, from the gloomy purity of Montana’s foremost writing
workshop to the hedonistic hotel bars of the Sunset Strip. The horrifying, hilarious tale of how Pete’s “pile of
garbage” called The Tornado Ashes Club became the most
talked about, blogged about, read, admired, and reviled
novel in America will change everything you think you know
about literature, appearance, truth, beauty, and those
people out there, somewhere in America, who still care about
books.
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