Amy falls down : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1250028272 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781250028273 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1250028272 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250028273 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250028273 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1250028272 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
324 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, [2013]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup, 60, has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing. She has done a lot of thinking, but very little writing. She hasn't published a book in 20 years, and she's settled into a quiet life with her beloved basset hound, Alphonse. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers, Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a birdbath. She knocks herself out just hours before she's scheduled to play the role of has-been local writer, none too excited about the newspaper interview she's agreed to give. But her head injury leads her to be interpreted as a rambling genius, which in turn brings media attention and reopens the door to writing. The hospital clears her of head injury, so Amy returns home. When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview, Amy is not quite herself. The article paints Amy as a the zen-goddess of writing, publishing, and life. Her bizarre interview was interpreted as the rambling of a true genius. But all that really happened was: Amy fell down! The next thing she knows, friends and fans are coming out of the woodwork. Suddenly Amy is on radio shows, keynoting a major publishing event, and guiding a local writers' retreat. But the strangest thing of all: Amy starts to write. Readers witness Amy confront her past and present, and choose to take down the walls she so carefully wrote up around her. This novel is a mirror into today's publishing world, a humorous roman-a-clef about a bitterly uninspired writer who decides to change her life after a freak accident. |
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Subject: | Women authors Fiction Life change events Fiction Grief Fiction |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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- 11 of 11 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Easton Public Library | FIC WILLETT, JINCY (Text) | 37777134657964 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF WIL (Text) | 33260000137399 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/WILLETT (Text) | 34029123672536 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC WILLETT (Text) | 34014129078813 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | WIL (Text) | 33210000318663 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | FIC WIL (Text) | 34047127350313 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | WILLETT, JINCY (Text) | 34037120090917 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | WILLETT Jincy (Text) | 34013077135518 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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