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The world is too much with Terence Bander, a once larger-than-life Hollywood icon, who worries his best years are behind him, and that the very stuff of those years (his kids, his ex-wives, his agent, the downward course of his no longer legendary career) is conspiring against him.
The world is not nearly enough with Alex Pimletz, a going-nowhere obituary writer for the Boston Record-Transcript, who worries his life has passed him by, and that he will never be caught in the same currents that move everyone else.
Bander, on an impulse, guides his car off a cliff along the Maine coast, hoping to emerge from his presumed death a richer man with no money or prospects but at least a bottomless serving of possibility. Pimletz, on a whim, is hired to complete the "fallen" icon's memoirs, and the assignment emerges as his first piece of possibility in a long while.
The Full Catastrophe, the darkly funny second novel from New York Times best-selling author Daniel Paisner, mines the rich territory between hope and despair, fame and infamy, whim and recklessness. In the hands of one of the more prominent "ghost-writers" in publishing, The Full Catastrophe offers pointed note-and-comment on the merchandising of our movie stars, politicians and business leaders, and the vagaries of our popular culture.
From the Author
Hey. A couple words of introduction. I make most of my living writing other people's books -- sometimes for credit, sometimes not. Whoopi Goldberg, Geraldo Rivera, George Pataki, Anthony Quinn, Montel Williams, Star Jones, Ed Koch, Maureen Reagan, Willard Scott, supermodel Emme... I've helped these folks, and others, place their stories between hard covers, with varying degrees of success. I keep most of my sanity writing somewhat lower profile books of my own. Here, with "The Full Catastrophe," I've stumbled across a tale that nicely straddles the space between my day job and my after-hours gig: a book about ghost-writing, by one of America's leading ghost-writers.(What are the odds?) I write other people's books for my principal living; Axel Pimletz, my anti-hero, writes another person's book for his lifeline; Terence Bander, my other anti-hero, unwittingly writes his own end to a life story he could never have imagined. A writer should write what he knows, right? Or, at least, what he thinks he knows.
The Full Catastrophe
The Full Catastrophe,Daniel Paisner,Writers Club Press,0595010180,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Literary
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