About the Author
Just how did Cal Cunningham -- a twenty-five-year-old bookstore stockboy who is new to Manhattan and who has never written anything -- publish a bestselling novel that sells to the movies for a million dollars?A mysterious roommate, a timely bike accident, and the rapacious literary agent Blackie...
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Just how did Cal Cunningham -- a twenty-five-year-old bookstore stockboy who is new to Manhattan and who has never written anything -- publish a bestselling novel that sells to the movies for a million dollars?A mysterious roommate, a timely bike accident, and the rapacious literary agent Blackie Yaeger all play a role in Cal's success.Deception, blackmail, and murder all play a role in his desperate bid to hold on to it.And About the Author is his first-person account of how he performed this remarkable feat.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060932176 (0060932171)
Publish date: August 1st 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 254
Edition language: English
A 2.5 star review.This book is really the poster child of "What a tangled web we weave, when at first we practise to deceive."Honestly, I mostly wasn't too impressed. About half way through I could sense that the author was just a couple of pages away from making a really, really bad mistake. I want...
Laugh out loud funny, fantastic characters, great twists and turns.