Research Catalog
The bookmakers
- Title
- The bookmakers / Zev Chafets.
- Author
- Chafets, Zeʼev.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [1995], ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3553.H225 B66 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 261 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Mack Green has a million-dollar idea for his next novel: A burned-out writer with woman troubles and money woes agrees to commit suicide for a huge book advance. Mack's editor thinks it's a surefire idea too - but only as nonfiction. Which is where the troubles begin in The Bookmakers.
- The Bookmakers demonstrates Chafets's comic inventiveness and uncanny ability to hold readers in suspense while making them laugh out loud. This is a caper that takes wicked aim at the book industry, the pro-suicide crowd, high school heroes, and a too-hip-for-its-own-good contemporary Cosa Nostra that aspires to become an equal-opportunity employer.
- Filled with memorable characters - from a dwarf hitman named Afterbirth to a Catholic priest who believes tithing extends to his sideline as a literary agent, to a publisher who commits to publishing his wife's short stories so she'll sleep with him - The Bookmakers is that special sort of novel that is as unforgettable as it is entertaining.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- ISBN
- 0679414568
- LCCN
- 94032159
- OCLC
- 31012577
- ocm31012577
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries