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The Thieves Of Manhattan (2010)

by Adam Langer(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1400068916 (ISBN13: 9781400068913)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Spiegel & Grau

review 1: I loved the first half of this book about an unpublished novelist, filled with rage and envy at the success of others, who is induced to try to "bring down" the publishing world by writing a false memoir. There is much sharp criticism of the publishing world and the story is told with brio and charming self-deprecation. Furthermore, the many literary allusions and use of made-up words derived from the names of authors are a great deal of fun. But by the end the whole book devolves into a peculiar thriller, the tone changes entirely, and I was disappointed.
review 2: I'm in the book business so this would probably be a little "Inside Baseball" for an average reader but I enjoyed a lot of the inside jokes and despaired at the cutthroat descriptions of the differ... moreent aspects of the book business. It's also a little meta (sometimes a little too meta) but overall I found myself sucked in by the twists and turns of the story within the story within the story. Red herrings abound and it's a mystery and a love letter and peer critique all at once. less

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