9781558495067 - the last days of publishing: a novel von engelhardt, tom (2 Ergebnisse)
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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. First paperback printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Pompeii never had it so bad. Rick Koppes knows a world is ending. The only question is, will he end with it? An editor at Byzantium Press for the last quarter century, he has watched his small, classy publishing house… get gobbled up, first by an American publishing giant and then by Multimedia Entertainment, the Hollywood wing of Bruno Hindemann's German media empire. His editing colleagues are being downsized, his authors axed, and in a world where the cultural wallpaper is screaming, he himself hangs on by a fingernail--the latest work of his sole best-selling author, pop psychologist Walter Groth, is racing off bookstore shelves. And that's just where his problems begin--after all, Multimedia is about to make his ex-wife, a publishing executive at another house, his boss, his assistant wants his authors, and a woman who claims her father dropped the bomb on Nagasaki insists he publish her woeful memoir. Koppes, who came of age in the sixties, is an editor slowly running off the rails. In the six episodes of THE LAST DAYS OF PUBLISHING, he refights the Vietnam War in a Chinese restaurant, discovers that the paleontological is political in a natural history museum, mixes it up with a flamboyant literary agent who went underground decades earlier, and encounters a hippie cultural oligarch on the forty-fifth floor of Multimedia's transnational entertainment headquarters. Tom Engelhardt, himself a publishing veteran, has produced a tumultuous vision of the new world in which the word finds itself hustling for a living. By turns hilarious, sardonic, and poignant, his novel deftly captures the ways in which publishing, which has long put our world between covers but has seldom been memorialized in fiction, is being transformed." [publisher copy] "An ex-editor laments the death of the book--by writing a wonderfully observant novel about an editor whose career and way of life are both coming to an end. Having been a senior editor at Pantheon for 15 years, unsurprisingly, has given Engelhardt an easy command of the tone and texture of the publishing world, but the graceful abilities he also demonstrated in bringing character, place, and mood achingly to life must be the gifts of the man alone. A brilliantly realized cri de coeur, pulsing throughout with life, sorrow, and thought."--Kirkus Reviews. "A satisfyingly virulent, comical, absurd, deeply grieving true portrait of how things work today in the sleek factories of conglomerate book producers. [A] skillful novel of manners--of very bad manners. The scenes are vividly set, and this writer, made of stern stuff, was laughing through his tears. Engelhardt tells us that the love of literature persists even in these frantic times."--Herbert Gold, Los Angeles Times Book Review. "Engelhardt has written the rarest of books: a truly intellectual novel. This faux memoir uses the decline of quality book publishing both as landscape and metaphor to explore in ways that are often heartbreaking the failure of the sixties to drastically change the world and the devastating moral and cultural consequences of that failure."--Ariel Dorfman. "A fiction that, uniquely, brings us into the mind of an editor--a master editor at that--and wittily shows us how much more is at stake in publishing than money and glamour. I found it moving and revelatory."--Todd Gitlin. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Fine As New.
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