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The book received good reviews. [3] [4] The Horn Book Magazine described it as a "story crammed with baffling word puzzles, a dozen zany characters, uproariously funny situations, and unmitigated slapstick." [1] It has fun with language, and helps young readers with clues in liberally dispersed footnotes.
Rub-A-Dub-Dub is a 2023 comic picaresque novel by Robert Wringham. The novel concerns a working-class , middleaged man who discovers self-care . [ 1 ] It is set between October 2019 and January 2020 and takes place on a sleeper train and in a tenement flat in Portobello, Edinburgh .
The novel moves to Franny's life in her twenties. She works as a cocktail waitress in Chicago after dropping out of law school. While waitressing, she meets Leon Posen, a famous, much older author, and begins a relationship with him. Leon uses Franny’s childhood, including Cal's death, as material for a best-selling novel titled Commonwealth ...
The Night Listener is a 2000 roman à clef by Armistead Maupin.The novel's plot is based on the author's interaction with Anthony Godby Johnson, the purported author of a book, A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story, both before and after Anthony is suspected of being a hoax.
Guido Brunetti is a fictional Italian detective, created by Swiss/American writer Donna Leon. He is a commissario (detective superintendent) in the Italian State Police, stationed in Venice and a native of that city. Brunetti is the protagonist of (as of 2024) 33 novels: He also appears in a German TV film series based on these novels.
A Memoir of Julian Brodetsky (1963); a detective novel in his Father Bredder series (as Leonard Holton), A Problem in Angels (1970); and a young adult novel, Guarneri: Story of a Genius (1974). Three of his novels have been made into movies: The Mouse That Roared (1959), The Mouse on the Moon (1963), and The Hands of Cormac Joyce (1972).
A God in Ruins is a 1999 novel by Leon Uris. Set between the 1940s and 2008, the book follows the life of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, the fictional Democratic candidate for the 2008 United States Presidency, his family, and the life of his opponent, Thornton Tomtree. The book climaxes with the election campaign and its results.
Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976).