The Thirteenth Tale more books like this

by Diane Setterfield

Amateur biographer Margaret Lea receives a letter from reclusive author Vida Winter, summoning her to write Vida's life story. Up to this point, Vida has never given a true account of her life, toying with interviewers by inventing lutlandish life histories of herself. In her old age, she at last wants to tell the truth a bout her extraordinary ...

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Finding Forrester more books like this

by James W Ellison, Mike Rich (Screenwriter)

Set in Manhattan and the South Bronx, William Forrester (Connery), a Pulitzer Prize -- winning novelist who has not been heard from for four decades, accidentally discovers that Jamal, a brash 16-year-old African-American who plays basketball on the court below his window, keeps a secret journal that shows a real gift for writing. Forrester takes ...

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The Tattooed Girl more books like this

by Joyce Carol Oates

In a college town in upstate New York, a reclusive scholar named Joshua Seigl engaged in a new translation of the AENEID, hires as his assistant a young woman named Alma, who has a tattooed face and a dubious past. Joshua's solitary, bookish existence is threatened not only by his officious sister Jet but by Alma's thoroughly nasty boyfriend, ...

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The Muse Asylum more books like this

by David Czuchlewski

Jake Burnett is a reporter; his old college friend Andrew Wallace is in a mental hospital. Both men are in love with Lara Knowles. The situation is further complicated by the presence in their lives of Horace Jacob Little, a writer Andrew considers his enemy. But is he? And, if not, who is he, exactly?

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