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A “witty and wise” (People) debut novel about love and commitment, celebrity and obsession, poetry and reality TV.

“Palmer’s novel wryly tracks an earnest interrogation of art and selfhood.”—The New Yorker

Reeling from a breakup with his almost fiancée, the narrator of Andrew Palmer’s debut novel returns to his hometown in Iowa to house-sit for a family friend. There, a chance flick of the TV remote and a new correspondence with an old friend plunge him into unlikely twin obsessions: the reality show The Bachelor and the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet John Berryman. As his heart begins to mend, his fascination with each deepens, and somewhere along the way, representations of reality become harder and harder to distinguish from real life. Soon he finds himself corresponding with multiple love interests, participating in an ill-considered group outing, and trying to puzzle through

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A “witty and wise” (People) debut novel about love and commitment, celebrity and obsession, poetry and reality TV.“Palmer’s novel wryly... Read more

    Publisher: Random House USA Inc
    Publication Date: 1/20/2021
    ISBN13: 9780593230893, 978-0593230893
    ISBN10: 593230892

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    A “witty and wise” (People) debut novel about love and commitment, celebrity and obsession, poetry and reality TV.

    “Palmer’s novel wryly tracks an earnest interrogation of art and selfhood.”—The New Yorker

    Reeling from a breakup with his almost fiancée, the narrator of Andrew Palmer’s debut novel returns to his hometown in Iowa to house-sit for a family friend. There, a chance flick of the TV remote and a new correspondence with an old friend plunge him into unlikely twin obsessions: the reality show The Bachelor and the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet John Berryman. As his heart begins to mend, his fascination with each deepens, and somewhere along the way, representations of reality become harder and harder to distinguish from real life. Soon he finds himself corresponding with multiple love interests, participating in an ill-considered group outing, and trying to puzzle through

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