What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame
that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial
comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as
boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic
lake; and--perhaps mostly importantly--the chance to humiliate his
ex-girlfriend at her wedding. This is the story of how he succeeds in
getting it all, and what it costs him in the end.
Narrated by an unlikely literary legend, How I Became A Famous
Novelist pinballs from the post-college slums of Boston, to the
fear-drenched halls of Manhattan's publishing houses, from the gloomy
purity of Montana's foremost writing workshop to the hedonistic hotel
bars of the Sunset Strip. The horrifying, hilarious tale of how Pete's
"pile of garbage" called The Tornado Ashes Club became the most talked
about, blogged about, read, admired, and reviled novel in America will
change everything you think you know about literature, appearance,
truth, beauty, and those people out there, somewhere in America, who
still care about books.