Dear Edna Sloane
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $39.95
ISBN13: 9781636281919
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Jul 30 2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Dear Edna Sloane is a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.
Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic and commercial success, vaulting her into the heady echelons of the 1980s New York City lit scene. Then she disappeared and was largely forgotten. Decades later, Seth Edwards is an aspiring writer and editor who feels he's done all the right things to achieve literary success, but despairs that his dream will be forever out of reach. He becomes obsessed with the idea that if he can rediscover Sloane, it will make his career. His search for her leads to unexpected places and connections, and the epistolary correspondence that ensues makes up this book, a novel infused with insights and meditations about what our cultural obsession with the next big thing does to literature, and what it means to be a creative person in the world.
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