Blackmailer's Guide to Love a Novel

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$26.95  $25.06
Publisher
Delphinium Books
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Pages
336
Dimensions
5.3 X 8.3 X 1.3 inches | 0.9 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781953002006

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About the Author
Marian Thurm is the author of seven other novels and five short story collections, including Today Is Not Your Day, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her novel The Clairvoyant was a New York Times Notable Book. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, The Southampton Review, and many other magazines, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories, and numerous other anthologies. Her books have been translated into Japanese, Swedish, Dutch, German, and Italian. She has taught creative writing at Yale University and Barnard College, in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Brooklyn College, at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence, and at the Yale Writers' Workshop.
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"A juicy roman à clef sympathetically imagines two young women on opposite sides of an extramarital affair.... Beautifully written, both sharp and bighearted, funny and true."--Kirkus Reviews (starred) Best Fiction Books of 2021
"Through her wide-eyed young heroine, Thurm wonderfully conveys the fantasies, disillusions, and vanities of literary New York in the late 1970s. Her biting sketches of the era's key figures bring that lost world alive in granular detail."--Andrea Barrett, author of The Air We Breathe and Archangel
"Thurm spins a story about love and ambition, and the cost of both, focusing on a desperate-to-be-known writer, her philandering boss, her confused, straying husband, and the wily paramour who's out to blackmail him. Smart, savvy, heartbreakingly funny, and oh so wise, with prose like sparklers on every page. Writers are going to absolutely adore this book, but hey, so will everyone else on the planet."--Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Picture of You and With or Without You