Flimsy little plastic miracles: a true story
β Scribed by Ron Currie Jr.
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US;Viking/Penguin Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101606053
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β¦ Synopsis
A bold, arresting new work of fiction from the acclaimed author of Everything Matters!
In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke.
The protagonist of Ron Currie, Jr.'s new novel has a problemΒ--or rather, several of them. He's a writer whose latest book was destroyed in a fire. He's mourning the death of his father, and has been in love with the same woman since grade school, a woman whose beauty and allure is matched only by her talent for eluding him. Worst of all, he's not even his own man, but rather an amalgam of fact and fiction from Ron Currie's own life. When Currie the character exiles himself to a small Caribbean island to write a new book about the woman he loves, he eventually decides to fake his death, which turns out to be the best career move he's ever made. But fame and fortune come with...
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