num_pages: 322
description: What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic lake; and perhaps most importantly the chance to humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her wedding. This is the story of how he succeeds in getting it all and what it costs him in the end.Narrated by an unlikely literary legend How I Became A Famous Novelist pinballs from the post-college slums of Boston to the fear-drenched halls of Manhattan's publishing houses from the gloomy purity of Montanas foremost writing workshop to the hedonistic hotel bars of the Sunset Strip. The horrifying hilarious tale of how Petes pile of garbage called The Tornado Ashes Club became the most talked about blogged about read admired and reviled novel in America will change everything you think you know about literature appearance truth beauty and those people out there somewhere in America who still care about books.
language: English
title: How I Became a Famous Novelist
publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat