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About the Author

by John Colapinto

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him comes a “clever and entertaining first novel.”-Elle Despite a severe case of writer''s block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing a novel that will permit him to escape from h... Read more

From the author of the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him comes a “clever and entertaining first novel.”-Elle

Despite a severe case of writer''s block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing a novel that will permit him to escape from his life as a penniless stockboy in dirty and dangerous upper Manhattan bookstore. However, when his roommate is suddenly killed in a bicycle accident, Cal is suddenly the author of a page-turning autobiography. Propelled to the top of the bestseller lists with million-dollar movie deals, Cal finds that he has realized his most outlandish fantasies of literary success. That is, until he discovers that someone knows his secret.

A searingly funny psychological thriller, About the Author delves into the excesses of the publishing world and shows that sometimes the difference between reality and imagination can be fatal.

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File size5.38x7.98x0.69inches
Print pages272
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date July 23, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780060932176
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John Colapinto
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John Colapinto is an award-winning journalist, author, and staff writer at The New Yorker, where he has written about subjects as diverse as medicinal leeches, Sotheby’s auctioneer Tobias Meyer,...

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