Synopsis:
The trials and travails of a group of young New York City-based novelists.
Review:
Grub is a reworking of a 19th Century novel. I can’t speak to its success in that regard because I haven’t read the original, but I will say that author Elise Blackwell pulls off a rare bird: a satire brimming with humanism. I enjoyed every line of this book, which reminded me at times of Whit Stillman’s marvelous first feature Metropolitan. This is a galley I’ll be keeping, rereading, and recommending all over the place when the book comes out in stores in September.
When I read these kind of reviews, it makes me want your job. 😉
I’ll lend it to you–I think you’d like it–
i’d LOVE that! thank you!
I always love all the tags you have on each entry!
“angry young man” *giggle* That seems a pretty common character in contemporary lit. 🙂
“headstrong girl” comes up a lot, too 🙂
Sounds kinda interesting.
This sounds like something I’ll definitely want to read, so I hope you do remember to mention it again when it comes out!
I’ll definitely be plugging any info I find on this book.
Have you read Blackwell’s book Hunger? She makes a joke about it in Grub, though she names neither author nor book. But it’s nice that she can poke fun at herself and other writers without being mean.
I haven’t–I just mooched it, though. Thanks for the recommendation!
GRUB is a fantastic book, must read for everyone who is writing or considers writing a book! Heard Elise Blackwell, the author, is touring the coming months, one of the venues will be the KGB-Bar in NY (she will read the scene in which Amanda reads from her book in the CIA-Bar…) on 10/7/07
Ooh–good to know!