Call Me When You're Dead: A Novel - Softcover

A. R. Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 164742223X ISBN 13: 9781647422233

Publisher: She Writes Press, 2022

Synopsis

Call Me When You're Dead is a darkly comic novel about payback gone wild, gone sour, maybe even sweet. “If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him.” That's what Eleanor Birch’s glamorous friend Sasha Cole requests of her during a New York City dinner one hot August night. Something bad does happen, and Eleanor is forced to become another person altogether in the wilds of Manhattan, acting as her own little Pygmalion in the harsh world of advertising and its remorseless denizens. How she triumphs, and how her prey becomes first her ally and then her lover, makes her journey a tragic romp, a hilarious disaster, and even an all-out farce—but one with very serious consequences.

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About the Author

A.R. Taylor is a playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Her debut novel, Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion, won a Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction at the IPPY Book Awards 2015, was a USA Best Book Awards Finalist, and was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the 12 Most Cinematic Indie Books of 2014. Her second novel, Jenna Takes The Fall, received the 2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Bronze Medal in Fiction: Intrigue. She's been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Southwest Review, Pedantic Monthly, The Cynic, the Berkeley Insider, So It Goes—the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Magazine, Red Rock Review, and Rosebud. In her past life, she was head writer on two Emmy-winning series for public television. She has performed at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York, Tongue & Groove in Hollywood, and Lit Crawl L.A. 2016. Find her video blog, Trailing Edge: Ideas Whose Time Has Come and Gone, at www.lonecamel.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 164742223X
• ISBN 13: 9781647422233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368