Book by Morton Brian
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Leonard Schiller, an aging author, now barely remembered by the literary world that once embraced him, is courted by Heather Wolfe, the young graduate student who wants to write her master's thesis on him. By the author of The Dylanist. Reprint. (A Roadside Attractions film, written by Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner, directed by Andrew Wagner, releasing Fall 2007, starring Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, & Lili Taylor) (General Fiction)
"An extraordinary novel." ? Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
Heather Wolfe is a young, ambitious graduate student. Leonard Schiller is the seventy-year-old, out-of-print author who is the subject of her master's thesis. When the two meet, Schiller quickly falls under the seductive promise of Heather's admiration. As Brian Morton examines the intersections of these two lives, he intertwines their story with a third one ? that of Ariel, Schiller's tender and vulnerable daughter. What ensues is a rare and beautiful story that is at once comic, insightful, and moving.
"Conjures a fully formed and vibrant sense of life in all its complexity . . . These three characters seem so organic and real, their emotions and actions so natural, that the reader slips instantly into intimacy with them." ?Elle
"Never sinks under the weight of its own probing ideas . . . Morton stays rooted in the humanity of his characters and their diverse quests . . . Stirring." --San Francisco Chronicle
BRIAN MORTON is the author of three other novels, including A Window Across the River, which was a Today Book Club selection, Breakable You, and The Dylanist. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University and lives in New York.
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