| Description: |
|
From the back cover : 'Grady Tripp is an oversexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2000-page masterpiece, Wonder Boys. when his rumbustious editor and friend Terry Crabtree arrives in town, a chaotic weekend follows, involving a tuba, a dead dog, Marilyn Monroe's ermine-lined jacket and a squashed boa constrictor. Reminiscent of early John Irving with flashes of William Boyd, Wonder Boys is highly accomplished and great fun' - Q |
