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After the Workshop (A Novel)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    John Mcnally
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    320
    Publisher:
    Catapult (February 16, 2010)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9781582435602
    ISBN-10:
    158243560X
    Weight:
    15.2oz
    Dimensions:
    6.05" x 9.01" x 0.69"
    Case Pack:
    28
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    RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260705T122603_156890388-20260705.xml
    Folder:
    RandomHouse
    List Price:
    $17.95
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    $13.82
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-RH
    Discount Code:
    A
    QuickShip:
    Yes
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    United States
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Counterpoint
  • Overview

    Life is hard for a literary wunderkind after a decade of writer’s block in this “ribald deconstruction . . . of an industry in love with its own absurdities” (Kirkus Reviews).

    You graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a short story published in The New Yorker and subsequently Best American Short Stories. You stay in town and work on your novel. And work on your novel. Until, finally, twelve years have passed . . . and you are working as a media escort for author tours and your unfinished novel sits in a box under your bed. Now your girlfriend has left you. Your car is missing a muffler. Your neighbor is walking around naked because his hands are bandaged and he can’t unzip his pants. You are at the whims of a slew of increasingly unhinged writers, and when one of them disappears, an insane New York publicist begins stalking you.

    This is the life of Jack Hercules Sheahan, a character well understood by author John McNally. McNally is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as well as a former media escort, and these misadventures are brought to life by his very own.

    Recalling the wry humor of novels by Nick Hornby and Michael Chabon, After the Workshop tells the satirical story of a writer who confronts the demons from his past while escorting those of his present.