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What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic lake;... read more
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- Pete Tarslaw: Our protagonist. Pete is working for a company that writes college applicants' essays when he receives an invitation to his ex-girlfriend's wedding. With a sort of half-baked idea of revenge on his mind, he sets out to write a best-selling novel.
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In strewn banners that lay like streamers from a longago parade the sun's fading seraphim rays gleamed onto the hood of the old Ford and ribboned the steel with the meek orange of a June tomato straining at the vine.
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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