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Keeping a Straight Face: Three Rick Coyne Novellas
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 18 2022
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A ROMANTIC GRUDGE MATCH:
When Rick, a writer with a million-dollar advance on his novel The Understated Stud, tries to pick up a woman at the Park Plaza bar, she pretends to be brain-damaged and puts him on.
Upstairs at the book launch she turns out to be a journalist. They trade insults on camera, he wins, and she's fired.
Vanity Fair hires her to sleep with the Stud and write an article on it, and the two begin a contest that involves New York society and the writer's estranged young son.
She gets him into bed and publishes a humiliating report on the encounter, and he can save his career only by marrying her.
Hah! Fat chance! But then she's offered a book deal as big as his and has to go through with it....
In SEX AND LOVE he's a teenager struggling with same. Later, IN THE CLUTCHES OF ART, he's a struggling writer, struggling with same.
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