
Starting Out in the Evening
Brian Morton(Author)
Mariner Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-15-603341-1 (ISBN)
Description
Leonard Schiller is a novelist in his seventies, a second-string but respectable talent who produced only a small handful of books. Heather Wolfe is an attractive graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller s novels when she was growing up and they changed her life. When the ambitious Heather decides to write her master s thesis about Schiller s work and sets out to meet him convinced she can bring Schiller back into the literary world s spotlight the unexpected consequences of their meeting alter everything in Schiller s ordered life. What follows is a quasi-romantic friendship and intellectual engagement that investigates the meaning of art, fame, and personal connection. "Nothing less than a triumph" ("The New York Times Book Review"), "Starting Out in the Evening" is Brian Morton s most widely acclaimed novel to date.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-15-603341-1 (9780156033411)
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BRIAN MORTON is the author of four previous novels, including Starting Out in the Evening, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and was made into an acclaimed feature film, and A Window Across the River, which was a Book Club selection of the Today show. He teaches at New York University, the Bennington Writing Seminars, and Sarah Lawrence College, where he also directs the writing program. He lives in New York.