Elbowing the Seducer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781946022400)

"The tangiest literary-world roman à clef to emerge from the '80s--it is almost certainly the best of the past four decades . . . Gertler has a high style, a feel for social comedy and a deadly eye for detail." --Dwight Garner, New York Times

New York, the early 1980s. Newman Sykes is a feared book critic, failed novelist, and savage interviewer, with a must-read monthly column and a weekly segment on the local TV news. His friend and rival Howard Ritchie is a fiction editor whose keen eye and near-lunatic force of will have turned a sleepy university journal into a star factory.

The two men share more than high standards and a hunger for the next big discovery; they also share keys to Newman's Village pied à terre, where (unbeknownst to their wives) each has his own set of sheets. This unsavory arrangement is strained to the breaking point when Howard receives a story from one "D. Reeve," a newcomer, who turns out to be the fresh talent they've both been waiting for--and a woman with ambition and appetites as ruthless as their own.

Author: Wyatt Harlan
ISBN-10: 1946022403
ISBN-13: 9781946022400
Publisher: McNally Editions
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.00w x 0.89d