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Foul matter

Grimes, Martha. (Author).

Summary: Author Paul Giverney is between publishers. Despite stratospheric sales of his books and frenzied competition to sign him up, he lives modestly in New York's East Village and nurses a secret ambition of a very different sort. In fact, he has a byzantine plan for accomplishing it: the #1 condition of his proposed contract with the literary giant Mackenzie-Haack. They must drop Ned Isaly, a brilliant but far less successful author, and assign his equally gifted editor to Paul. In the hornets' nest of preening egos and cutthroat career moves this stirs up, ambitious editor Clive Esterhaus covets the glossy megastar Paul for himself. But Isaly's book contract is unbreakable and Clive never dreams how a very different kind of contract will force him-and his ambition-into a very foul matter, indeed.

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  • ISBN: 067003259X (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780670032594 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780451212931 (2004 NAL trade pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 371 p. ; 25 cm. : ill.
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, c2003.

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Prequel to "The Way of All Fish".

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Subject: New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
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Genre: Satire
Humorous fiction.
Topic Heading: Giverney, Paul (Fictitious character)
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