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Lädt ... The Thieves of Manhattan (2010)von Adam Langer
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Interesting meta-fiction novel of the publishing world scandals of seven years ago. NY inside industry inside gossip, funny eponyms ("atwood, chabon, lish, daisy), con games with confident men, love stories, scandals, revenge, meta-art world, creative use of the Dewey Decimal System. Very readable, amusing aesthetic. Went quickly and I read most of the pages. I'm in the book business so this would probably be a little "Inside Baseball" for an average reader but I enjoyed a lot of the inside jokes and despaired at the cutthroat descriptions of the different aspects of the book business. It's also a little meta (sometimes a little too meta) but overall I found myself sucked in by the twists and turns of the story within the story within the story. Red herrings abound and it's a mystery and a love letter and peer critique all at once. This one is a ton of fun. It's a literary caper with a healthy sense for the absurd that takes place within the publishing industry (name checking every luminary in the field along the way). It's smart, funny, and inventive and executed deftly enough that it won't leave non-book-nerds in the dust. It proives once again that Langer's weakness is his strength: every book is different and has to stand entirely on its own merits. Ths one totally does. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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