Amy Falls Down: 2 (Amy Gallup) - Softcover

WILLETT, JINCY

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250050251 ISBN 13: 9781250050250

Publisher: Picador Paper, 2014

Synopsis

The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing-she's done a lot of thinking...but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers, Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a birdbath. The hospital clears her of head injury - so Amy returns home. When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview - Amy is not quite herself. The article paints Amy as a the zen-goddess of writing, publishing...and life. Her bizarre interview was interpreted as the rambling of a true genius. But all that really happened was: Amy fell down! The next thing she knows, friends and fans are coming out of the woodwork. Suddenly Amy is on radio shows, keynoting a major publishing event, and guiding a local writers' retreat. But the strangest thing of all: Amy starts to write.

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Review

Praise for The Writing Class: Willet's delicious satire savages every literary pretension imaginable.--The Miami Herald. A marvelous toy of a book, full of wry surprises and sly twists...extremely clever and quite enjoyable. --Booklist. Praise for Winner of the National Book Award. The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever. --Augusten Burroughs. Riotous [and] hugely funny. --The New York Times. The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. . . . . --Entertainment Weekly. Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett's novel is exuberantly original.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) An elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery. Jincy Willett is a fearless writer, capable of startling the reader into rueful laughter at every turn.--Tom Perrotta. Praise for Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Exquisite...A great, darkly comic collection.--Esquire. The funniest collection of stories I've ever read--really funny and perfectly sad at the same time.David Sedaris --Various

About the Author

JINCY WILLETTis the author of Jenny and the Jaws of Life, Winner of the National Book Award, and The Writing Class, which have been translated and sold internationally. Her stories have been published in Cosmopolitan, McSweeney's Quarterly, and other magazines. She frequently reviews for The New York Times. Book Review. Willett spends her days parsing the sentences of total strangers and her nights teaching and writing--sometimes, late at night, in the dark, she laughs inappropriately.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador Paper
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1250050251
• ISBN 13: 9781250050250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336