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Creative Types: And Other Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781524749156)
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xFrom the best-selling coauthor of The Disaster Artist and "one of America's best and most interesting writers" (Stephen King), a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark--unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and life
A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A long-married couple hires an escort for a threesome in order to rejuvenate their relationship. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. A Bush administration lawyer wakes up on an abandoned airplane, trapped in a nightmare of his own making. In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises--writers, video-game developers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant, and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, Creative Types is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.
Author: Tom Bissell
ISBN-10: 152474915X
ISBN-13: 9781524749156
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2020
Booklist 09/01/2020 pg. 35
Library Journal 09/01/2020 pg. 62
A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A long-married couple hires an escort for a threesome in order to rejuvenate their relationship. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. A Bush administration lawyer wakes up on an abandoned airplane, trapped in a nightmare of his own making. In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises--writers, video-game developers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant, and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, Creative Types is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.
Author: Tom Bissell
ISBN-10: 152474915X
ISBN-13: 9781524749156
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2020
Booklist 09/01/2020 pg. 35
Library Journal 09/01/2020 pg. 62
By Tom Bissell
xTOM BISSELL was born in Escanaba, Michigan, in 1974. His short fiction has won two Pushcart Prizes and has been published in multiple editions of The Best American Series. He has also written eight works of nonfiction, including Apostle and (with Greg Sestero) The Disaster Artist, as well as many screenplays for video games and television. Bissell lives in Los Angeles with his family.
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