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Jul 1, 2009 · To impress his former girlfriend at her upcoming wedding, Pete Tarslaw decides to become a famous novelist. Figuring it couldn't be all that hard, he spends an afternoon at a bookstore studying bestselling books. His studies reveal the keys to a successful book: Rule 1: Abandon truth.
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Jul 8, 2009 · Steve Hely is an American writer and television writer. His novel How I Became A Famous Novelist won the 2010 James Thurber Prize for American Humor. He’s the co-author of the comic travelogue The Ridiculous Race, and co-host of the podcast The Great Debates. He’s written for such TV shows as The Late Show with David Letterman, The Office ...
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Jul 14, 2009 · Steve Hely is an American writer and television writer. His novel How I Became A Famous Novelist won the 2010 James Thurber Prize for American Humor. He’s the co-author of the comic travelogue The Ridiculous Race, and co-host of the podcast The Great Debates.
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How I Became a Famous Novelist - Ebook written by Steve Hely. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read How I Became a Famous Novelist.
I may have read a funnier book in the last 20 years, but at this moment I’m hard-pressed to name it.” —Elinor Lipman, The Washington Post “A pitch-perfect takeoff on the insipid conventions of the best-seller racks . . . caustic wit with an unexpected depth of emotional insight.” —Austin American-Statesman “How I Became a Famous ...
- Steve Hely
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2009
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- How I Became a Famous Novelist
Once the sales ranking for The Tornado Ashes Club starts its meteoric rise, his inevitable decline looms – and his fall from grace will be nothing short of spectacular. How I Became a Famous Novelist is the hilarious tale of how Pete Tarslaw’s ‘pile of garbage’ became the most talked about, read, admired and reviled novel in America.
A razor - sharp evisceration of celebrity culture and literary fame, How I Became a Famous Novelist is a satirical novel masquerading as a tell - all memoir. Sick of life as he knows it, Pete Tarslaw sets out to write a bestselling novel, armed with a formula for success cobbled together from previous bestsellers: he abandons truth, relies heavily on lyrical prose, creates a club with a ...
