9780151012688
The Executor: A Comedy of Letters
Michael Kruger
ISBN 13: 9780151012688
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
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Summoned to Turin following the death of his best friend to resolve the will and literary estate of the late writer and professor, the narrator finds a household populated by an extensive collection of house pets, a voluminous library of books and research materials, the late author's magnum opus, and the three women he had left behind--a widow, a secretary, and a lover.
Review:
"[Michael] Kruger ponders...heavy metafictional matters with grace and poet's trim, lucid phrasing."
Booklist, 10/15/2007
Review:"At once playful and elegiac [EXECUTOR is] a beguiling meditation the nature of authorship."
Publishers Weekly, 11/12/2007
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