The Dirty Book
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My review -
Robert
Block is a writer with literary pretentions, whose agents has tried without
success to get a publisher for one of his elevated works. Under pressure to
produce more, he finds a forgotten work on his hard drive – Her Dark Confession
– written in his early days. He self-publishes it and it’s a runaway best-seller.
It should be easy to confess and take the credit for his dirty book’s success
but for various reasons, some of his own making, he can’t.
I really
enjoyed this sideways look at the world of writing and publishing, book
snobbery and populism. Block has talent but he’s also idle and self-indulgent.
It’s a treat to watch him dig himself in deeper with things he ought not to
have touched in the first instance. I don’t want to give too much away but I
enjoyed the ending too. A good read and a good laugh.
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