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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Famous Writers School

Famous Writers School

Carter, Steven

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1582433844
ISBN13: 9781582433844
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Sep 1 2006
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.76 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
A genre-bending romp that is at once reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Carl Hiaasen

Steven Carter, who has been called madly inventive (Kirkus Reviews) and darkly comic (Village Voice), has a genius for letting his characters speak for themselves, and here they do so quite literally. Famous Writers School is composed of three aspiring authors' letters and stories sent to a correspondence course by that grandiose name, and the self-serving lessons that Wendell Newton, their endearingly obtuse instructor, doles out in response.

Wendell's oddball collection of students includes Rio, an alluring blues singer on whom he quickly develops a crush; Linda Trane, an unhinged housewife who may be stalking him; and Dan, a truly talented author of hard-boiled detective fiction. As Dan's gritty mystery arrives piece by piece, Wendell gets hooked on the story--and decides to dress it up in his own style in order to pass it off as his creation.

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