Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Here is a writer's nightmare. You've written two serious novels to critical acclaim but they haven't made a dime. So you write how-to books and self-help books, and everything you despise, to support your family while you make time to write your 'real' books. And then it happens. You hit mega-success with a book on UFOs that you wrote pseudonymously because you were ashamed to put your own name on it. Your publisher sends you on a book tour (after thinking about hiring an actor to stand in for you) to flog the book that is making you a wealthy man. This is the
premise of Spencer's comedy of manners, which is not only funny, but sprinkled with insight. The book is written with a kind of rueful gusto (how else to describe the feeling of achieving success for something un-deserved while watching the treasured bits of your personal life being scattered to the four winds)." Reviewed by Andrew Witmer, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)