Amy Gallup was a promising writer once--published and highly
praised at twenty-two. It was all downhill from there, and
now, year in and year out, she teaches a writing workshop at
the local university extension. And this semester begins
just the same as the others. But then there's a threatening
phone call, followed by obscene threats worked into the
student's peer evaluations. Then a murder--and every one of
the students is a suspect. The clues are hidden in their
writing, and she (and we) can solve the murder only by
looking more closely at each writer's attempts at fiction. Hilarious, vicious, and elegantly written, The Writing
Class examines the desperation, perversion, and mania of
the writing life through an unforgettable mystery story.
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