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Famous after death : a novel

Title
Famous after death : a novel / Benjamin Cheever.
Author
Cheever, Benjamin, 1948-
Publication
New York : Crown Publishers, c1999.

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Description
211 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
A comedy on Noel Hammersmith, a book editor whose ambition is to be famous. When bombs explode in New York the question arises, are they the work of a terrorist writer, Hammersmith claims to be working with, or of Hammersmith himself. A satire on the pursuit of celebrity status in our society.
Subject
  • Overweight men > Fiction
  • Attention-seeking > Fiction
  • Serial murderers > Fiction
  • Prisoners > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Diary fiction.
  • Black humor (Literature)
Call Number
JFD 02-23674
ISBN
0609600052 (hardcover)
LCCN
98029645
OCLC
39307532
Author
Cheever, Benjamin, 1948-
Title
Famous after death : a novel / Benjamin Cheever.
Imprint
New York : Crown Publishers, c1999.
Edition
1st ed.
Research Call Number
JFD 02-23674
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