Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel-- when he isn't teaching at the local women's prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether it's time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend, a medical student. When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer taking a b
Early Work
β Scribed by Martin, Andrew
- Book ID
- 110427097
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 782 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374146122
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β¦ Synopsis
"What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I've read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable isn't always pretty, but Andrew Martin possesses the prose magic to make it hilarious, illuminating, moving." βSam Lipsyte, author of The Ask and The Fun Parts
For young writers of a certain temperamentβif they haven't had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internetβthe delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the "foul rag and bone shop of the heart." That's where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novelβthat is, when he isn't teaching at the local women's prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether it's time to tie the knot with his college...
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