Description: Simon Hopkins is an English novelist who finds himself leading a writer's workshop of 11 sub-par amateurs on a Greek island. While teaching lessons in New Age self-empowerment that he himself doesn't believe in, Hopkins turns his attenti...
Synopsis Simon Hopkins is an English novelist who finds himself leading a writer's workshop of 11 sub-par amateurs on a Greek island. While teaching lessons in New Age self-empowerment that he himself doesn't believe in, Hopkins turns his attentions to getting laid and to the literary success he feels he's been denied.
Details
Publication Date:
1997-05-01
Edition Description:
Reprint
Size
Height:
8.3 in
Width:
5.5 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
10.4 oz
Publisher's Note The acclaimed author of THE WHITE HOTEL and EATING PAVLOVA offers a deliciously comic novel of the literary life. "Marvelous . . . This bitingly satirical and wickedly bawdy . . . novel questions the tenuous lines between fact and fiction, the very nature of artifice". San Francisco CHRONICLE.
Industry Reviews "...[T]he world of books is buttressed by squadrons of has-been second-rate pretenders like Simon, depending on worn-out charm as they go on seducing instead of writing. We can't get mad at them. They're the backbone of the agency! Thomas lets us look at Simon--and that whole scruffy world--with real, if grudging affection." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Carolyn See (06/02/1996)