Fiction by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Before Jacob Finch-Bonner turned twenty-five he had written a promising first novel. Unfortunately, after failing to write anything else, a few years later he ends up stuck teaching creative writing at a second-tier college. That's when he encounters a student called Evan Parker. Evan is an arrogant entitled jerk who insists he has the best plot for a thriller novel ever. It HAS to be a best seller, Evan says. And once Jacob hears the plot idea, he actually agrees.
Will Evan write this fabulous thriller? Will Jacob steal the plot and write it himself? Will the reader EVER find out the specifics of this fabulous plot?
This was partly a thriller and partly a novel slogging through writer's angst. I mostly enjoyed it but I didn't particularly care for the character of Mr. Finch-Bonner, poor tortured artist.
I also read by this author: You Should Have Known
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