Starting Out in the Evening - Softcover

Morton, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425168697 ISBN 13: 9780425168691

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 1999

Synopsis

In the second novel by the author of The Dylanist, an aging author, now barely remembered by the literary world that once embraced him, is courted by a young graduate student who wants to write her thesis on him. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Brian Morton is the author of the novel The Dylanist. He is the executive editor of Dissent magazine. He lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap:

ller is a writer in his seventies. All of his books are out of print; he's left no mark in literary history; a lifetime of dedicated labor has brought him few rewards. Heather Wolfe is a graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller's novels when she was growing up, and they changed her life. She decides to write her master's thesis about Schiller's work, and she sets out to meet him.

Starting Out in the Evening is a novel about the unexpected consequences of that meeting--and the unexpected consequences of art. Heather blows into Schiller's life like a whirlwind and overturns everything in it. After years of obscurity, he finds himself dreaming of literary immortality; after a lifetime of restraint, he finds himself infatuated with a woman "so young she seemed like an emissary from the future."

For Heather, meeting Schiller has even more complicated results. Finding it hard to believe that this cautious, habit-bound man wrote the books that taught her so much

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0425168697
• ISBN 13: 9780425168691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 325