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    612-822-4611

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Mfa: The Novel

Mfa: The Novel

Lassen, Jennifer L.
Rapczynski, Jason

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1479145025
ISBN13: 9781479145027
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 12 2012
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
John is an alcoholic writer who drinks to keep writing and writes to keep drinking. While studying for his MFA at Emerson College, he records his day-to-day existence in the city of Boston, writes about his experiences in workshops and dive bars, and reads literary biographies. Of the seven American-born writers awarded the Nobel Prize, five were alcoholics, and he follows their staggered footsteps into a cycle of recurring situations, volatile relationships, and similarly disturbing encounters that threatens to push him over the edge. He might be gathering a wealth of material for his autobiographical thesis-but will he survive to actually complete the program? Full of seedy sex scenes, rebellion, dysfunction, dark humor and self-destruction, MFA is a defining installment in the gritty genre of transgressive fiction. Rapczynski does it again with MFA: plunges us into the seedy underbelly-this time in the form of a young alcoholic whose drinking, sex life, and ambitions are equally promiscuous. In the tradition of Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, in MFA the narrator rises above his narrative-sharp, witty, sad, and grimily real-so we can't help but like and feel for him. Read it and weep. -Elizabeth Inness-Brown, author of Burning Marguerite

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