Talk to Me

✍ Scribed by John Kenney

• Book ID: 100607362
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 174 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0735214379

✦ Synopsis

From New Yorker contributor and the Thurber Prize-winning author of Truth in Advertising comes a wry yet tenderhearted look at how one man's public fall from grace leads him back to his family, and back to the man he used to be.
It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. After his profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years.
While American viewers may have loved and trusted Ted for decades, his family certainly didn't: His years of constant travel and his big-screen persona have frayed all of his important relationships. At the time of his meltdown, Ted is estranged from his wife, Claire, and his adult daughter, Franny, a writer for a popular website. Franny views her father's disgrace with curiosity and perhaps...

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- Literary