• New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, suspense

"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written - let alone published - anything decent in years.

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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and grave.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • sparerichly built
  • gravecomic
  • character-ledplot-driven

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