''Reading *How Literature Saved My Life* is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.'' --Whitney Otto In this wonderfully
Emma Who Saved My Life
β Scribed by Barnhardt, Wilton
- Book ID
- 108227243
- Publisher
- Picador
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 656 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780312191184
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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A big, funny, engaging, unsentimental and sometimes even wise book...Delightful." --_New York Post
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Author of _**Lookaway, Lookaway
**_ Wilton Barnhardt's novel of coming of age in New York City brims with energy, surprise, irresistible humor, and the heady rush of youth. Its hero, Gil Freeman, a midwestern aspiring actor, comes to the city in search of stardom--but instead encounters the perils of Alphabet City, the desperation of off-off-off-Broadway theater...and the exhilarating, exasperating, absolutely unique Emma, around whom his life comes to turn. Charming and engaging, quintessentially American, Emma Who Saved My Life is one of the extraordinary fiction debuts of our time.
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