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In a bawdy, irreverent send-up of the literary scene, this riotous odyssey has blocked writer Eliot Morrison swept from New York with its agents, actresses, and "desperation panic states" to the seedy, one-grand Hotel San Marcos on the California coast, for a week-long writers' conference. While his fellow writers are driven by literary ambitions to savage one another's work and one another, Eliot finds himself at the center of a bizarre turn of events that culminates in senseless and absurd violence.
Laying bare the lives and illusions of professional and would-be writers as well as the hangers-on who inhabit the literary world, this novel is sexy, outrageous, devastating, and satirical. It has a compassion for its characters whose parallel lives, propelled by ambition and disappointment, turn to collide head-on in fulfillment of relentless destiny.
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An intentionally bad novel presents unusual problems to the reviewer. Is there any point in remarking, for instance, that a writer's conference taught by hacks and failures and hypocrites presents too easy a target for all but the most obvious satire? Is it a waste of time complaining that sentences run on moronically, that the humor might charitably be described as sophomoric, that characterization is slack-jawed? Does it matter that the sex would gross out your average horny teenager? Is it significant that our narrator himself describes Saturday Night at San Marcos as a ``lousy novel''? And, last but not least, is anyone going to care? Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.
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- PublisherGrove Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0394622731
- ISBN 13 9780394622736
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages236
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ISBN 10: 0394622731
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BE6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus a paper punch on the top front right of the front cover. A bawdy, utterly irreverent send-up of the literary scene. In a riotous odyssey, blocked writer Eliot Morrison is swept from New York with its agents, actresses and "desperation panic states" to the seedy, once-grand Hotel San Marcos on the California coast for a week-long writers' conference. While his fellow writers are driven by literary ambitions to savage one another's work and one another, Eliot finds himself at the center of a bizarre turn of events that cuminates in senseless and absurd violence. 236p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # SCW00250
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