An unfinished novel, stolen car, a murdered pet, an unstable student, a fed-up wife,
a pregnant lover – it’s safe to say that Grady Tripp has a number of issues to deal
with this weekend. Grady is a 50ish English professor who hasn’t had a thing published in years –
not since he wrote his award winning Great American Novel 7 years ago. It’s hardly
surprising then that his college’s annual literary fills the former wonder boy with
more than his usual quota of self-doubt and anxiety. He finds himself reeling from
one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy, James Leer.
He’s Grady’s most gifted writing student. He’s also a fluent liar whose particular
behavior launches the professor on a picaresque odyssey of self-discovery.
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