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Ried, William Michael

 
9781949085372: Backstory: a novel
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1949085376 ISBN 13 : 9781949085372
Editeur : CK Books Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Ansel Tone has been named “The Golden Boy of Popular History.” He teaches propaganda at Columbia University and writes Redux Revisionist History best-sellers. His looks and family wealth help him to hawk his books on late night talk shows. He speaks to packed auditoriums. Undergraduates are said to swoon over his lectures. The public sees a professor who drives fast cars and runs with glamorous women, but his personal life is poised between an overbearing father and a son he hardly knows. Ansel spent his junior year at Trinity College in Dublin, on a campus cloaked in four centuries of student pranks and mayhem. Twelve years later a classmate comes to New York and organizes a reunion. Ansel attends mostly to see how time has treated the beautiful Tess, his girlfriend that year who married their classmate, Charlie. Charlie and Tess live in “Mountain House” in the Hudson Valley. She’s a big-firm lawyer. He’s trying to replicate the success of his first novel and overcome the train-wreck of his second. At the reunion Charlie announces he will fictionalize the story of how he won Tess away from Ansel. He’ll change the facts to improve the story, but he first wants help remembering what really happened. Ansel panics. Digging into the past could reveal secrets that could overturn his life, and so he sets out to manipulate the story.Complications ripple from Charlie digging into his college days, Ansel struggling to rewrite his own past and Tess wondering if she wound up with the right guy, while their classmates come to terms with themselves and each other and share the repercussions of rewriting history.

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À propos de l'auteur

William Michael Ried was born on Long Island, graduated from the University of Michigan and Georgetown University Law Center and practices law in New York City. His first novel, Five Ferries, was a finalist in the 2019 American Fiction Awards for Best New Fiction. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.

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Éditeur
CK Books Publishing
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1949085376
ISBN 13 
9781949085372
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
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