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The Resource The plot : a novel, Jean Hanff Korelitz, (electronic resource)

The plot : a novel, Jean Hanff Korelitz, (electronic resource)

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Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he?s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what?s left of his self-respect; he hasn?t written?let alone published?anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn?t need Jake?s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker?s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that?a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker?s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?
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eng
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The plot : a novel
Title
The plot
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a novel
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Jean Hanff Korelitz
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eng
Summary
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he?s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what?s left of his self-respect; he hasn?t written?let alone published?anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn?t need Jake?s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker?s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that?a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker?s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?
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1961-
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Korelitz, Jean Hanff
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fiction
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  • Plagiarism
  • Authors
  • Theft
  • Novelists
  • Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
  • Truthfulness and falsehood
  • Authors
  • Plagiarism
  • Theft
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The plot : a novel, Jean Hanff Korelitz, (electronic resource)
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  • 1 online resource
  • 272 p.
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online
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9781250790743
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4cx1sr9
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Electronic reproduction.
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(MnSpTMCL)4cx1sr9
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Label
The plot : a novel, Jean Hanff Korelitz, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Note
Electronic book
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
  • 1 online resource
  • 272 p.
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781250790743
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
4cx1sr9
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
System control number
(MnSpTMCL)4cx1sr9
System details
  • Format: Adobe EPUB
  • Requires: cloudLibrary (file size: 2.8 MB)

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