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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:No one before him may have so tacitly failed at writing a memoir as Jonathan Baumbach's poet-protagonist, B, an intellectual's Bukowski, who struggles to write his history in this comedic new novel. But the events herein exist largely in the gray area between the facts of B's life and the fantasies and fictions of his mind, calling into question the validity, even the importance, of truth in memory. Nothing, it seems, has ever really gone B's way. In one flawed incident, he arrives at a small liberal arts college to deliver a reading and is mistaken for a famous attorney notorious for defending the indefensible. He plays it off, calmly taking the stage and proclaiming to thunderous applause: "I am not the man you think I am." B is not the man anyone thinks he is, including himself. His failed attempts at reconstructing his life lead him to the realization that any story is simply what's become of its character's life. But how can B have failed so miserably at writing his own memoir, unless the life that memoir attempted to recount was also a failure? Review:"Jonathan Baumbach has been a hero of mine since I started writing. I was then, and remain today, avid for novelists who push the limits of the novel's form without sacrificing its traditional human juices. Baumbach is just such a writer, and B is just such a novel?smart, edgy, full of feeling, not quite like anything I've ever read."
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Michael Cunningham, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for The Hours, on B Synopsis:The narrator, known only as B, writes about the women in his life, most of whom have dumped him. Finally, he joins Heartbreak Anonymous, where he meets many more women--but things only get more and more crazy.... Synopsis:Fiction. No one before him may have so tacitly failed at writing a memoir as Jonathan Baumbach'spoet-protagonist, B, an intellectual's Bukowski, who struggles to write his history in thiscomedic new novel. But the events herein exist largely in the gray area between the factsof B's life and the fantasies and fictions of his mind, calling into question the validity,even the importance, of truth in memory. About the AuthorBorn in Brooklyn, son of a painter, father of four including a filmmaker, Jonathan Baumbach is the author of numerous books, including Reruns, Babble, Chez Charlotte & Emily, The Life and Times of Major Fiction, Seven Wives and D-Tours. Though mainly a a novelist, he has published over 80 short stories in such places as Esquire, American Review, Fiction International, Partisan Review and TriQuarterly. He has been widely anthologized and has appeared in O.Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories. In 1973, he cofounded Fiction Collective, the first large scale writing cooperative in America. He has written on movies for Partisan Review and is a former chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. Over the years, he has taught at Brooklyn College, Brown, Princeton, NYU, Columbia, Tufts, University of Washington, and Ohio State. He currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Great Barrington, Mass. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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