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Martin, Andrew, 1985- author

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\"For young writers of a certain temperament ... the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W.B. Yeats once called the 'foul rag and bone shop of the heart.' That's where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel--that is, when he isn't teaching at the local women's prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether it's time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend ... When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer taking a break from her fiancâe, he gets a glimpse of what he wishes and imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Her rag-and-bone shop may be as squalid as his own, but at least she knows her way around the shelves. Over the course of a Virginia summer, their charged, increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Subject: Man-woman relationships Fiction. / Interpersonal attraction Fiction. / Novelists Fiction. / Ambition Fiction. / Virginia Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780374146122

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3613.A77777 E17 2018	1	BOOK	GENERAL