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About the Author - John Colapinto

About the Author

By: John Colapinto

Paperback | 12 November 2014

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272 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.73

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him comes a “clever and entertaining first novel.”--Elle

Despite a severe case of writer's block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing a novel that will permit him to escape from his life as a penniless stockboy in dirty and dangerous upper Manhattan bookstore. However, when his roommate is suddenly killed in a bicycle accident, Cal is suddenly the author of a page-turning autobiography. Propelled to the top of the bestseller lists with million-dollar movie deals, Cal finds that he has realized his most outlandish fantasies of literary success. That is, until he discovers that someone knows his secret.

A searingly funny psychological thriller, About the Author delves into the excesses of the publishing world and shows that sometimes the difference between reality and imagination can be fatal.

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