副标题: A Novel
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作者:AdamLanger
出版时间:2010-7-13
书籍简介:
The famously false memoirs of James Frey may be yesterday’s news, but as this funny riff reminds us, literary fakes are as old as literature itself. Ian Minot is an aspiring writer who labors over short stories that seem destined to remain unread. His beautiful Romanian girlfriend, Anya Petrescu, finds success more easily—and leaves Ian for Blade Markham, a bloviating ex-gangbanger whose “so-called memoir” is a best-seller. When Ian is approached by ex-editor Jed Roth, who wants Ian to publish Jed’s pulpy tale of book theft and murder as a memoir, then renounce it, it’s a chance for both of them to get revenge: Jed on his former employer, and Ian on the world. Although Langer may be too cute for some (he employs made-up slang in which a penis is a portnoy), he does an engaging job with the hall-of-mirrors plot. And if readers can predict that the book they’re reading is the one that Ian ends up writing, they’ll never guess the ending. Just when you want a surprising twist, Langer delivers several.
作者简介:
一九六七年出生于美国芝加哥，当过编辑、散文作家、剧作家、话剧导演、电影制片人，出版过小说《穿越加州》、《华盛顿故事》和《埃林顿大街》以及回忆录《我的父亲与补偿金事件》。现在是全职作家，并在《图书标准》杂志上辟有专栏。与妻子贝亚特、女儿诺拉和索尔维以及爱狗小笛一起居住在纽约。
