The Man Who Cancelled Himself

David Handler

ISBN 10: 0385421605 / ISBN 13: 9780385421607

Published by Doubleday January 1995, 1995

About this Item

First Edition. Signed by author on title page. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar. Seller Inventory # 62659

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Man Who Cancelled Himself

Publisher: Doubleday January 1995

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed

Edition: First.

About this title

Synopsis:

The author of Kiddo and Boss returns with his latest "Hoagy" mystery as ghostwriter Stewart Hoag deals with his very pregnant ex-wife and his new client--a TV sitcom star arrested in a porno theater.

From Publishers Weekly:

Great fun from Handler in his sixth Stewart Hoag adventure (The Boy Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald won an Edgar in 1991), despite its overwrought climax and a villain whom psychologically hip readers will spot before the actual unmasking. Former literary boy-wonder Hoagy has sunk to ghosting the showbiz autobio of children's TV star Lyle ("Uncle Chubby") Hudnut, who's attempting a comeback after an arrest for indecent exposure in a Times Square porn theater. Lyle, a 300-pound bundle of crazed energy, ego and cruelty, is sure that someone-or the world-is out to get him and believes the book will generate sympathy. There are personal complications: Lyle's co-star is his ex-wife; the network's executive producer is an ex-girlfriend; his current fiancee is the show's producer, a spot coveted by an assistant producer; and the show's writers are angling for control. A fire on the set, food poisoning and the bizarre murder of the newest cast member wreak havoc. A subplot involves Hoagy's celebrity ex-wife, who's pregnant and won't identify the father, but the best part of the book is Hoagy's gimlet-eyed observations of the fierce, delicious and dizzy infighting in Sitcom Land.
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