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About Harry Towns
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This novel will appeal to readers interested in sharp, darkly comic explorations of personal failure and reinvention, especially those who appreciate incisive social commentary set against a 1970s backdrop.
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Bruce Jay Friedman has been hailed by critics as a comic genius, a writer whose vision confronts the malaise of contemporary life with a liberating deadpan humour. Grove Press is proud to reissue one of the classic novels by this acclaimed master of modern humour.
About Harry Towns is the story of the eponymous screenwriter, a man revelling in the freewheeling atmosphere of the early 1970s, a bicoastal playboy with a broken marriage and a child he rarely sees. But when his perfectly constructed life begins to spin out of control, he must decide to pick up the scattered pieces of his past to begin anew.
Praise for About Harry Towns: "A goddamn heartbreaking delight and you are a fool if you miss it. Friedman has created a character unique, haunting, and completely memorable in stories which tickle, depress, gouge below the belt and at second or third reading hold up as nothing less than a joy." — The Washington Post Book World
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ISBN: 9780802137388
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 November 2000
Country: United States
Imprint: Smithmark Publishers
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 226g
Pages: 192
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