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William Monahan : Light House: A Trifle

Riverhead Books, New York, 2000

ISBN 9781573221580

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AD3 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by William Monahan to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, and crease on the edges, some scattered light stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and dent, half-inch tear with dent on the back gutter, light discoloration and shelf wear. [setting] The Admiral Benbow Inn: the epitome of fading New England glory - triple mortgage, with a post-Freudian view of the lighthouse. [time] A weekend in the present. [cast] An eccentric band of misfits find themselves marooned by a nor'easter at this bed & breakfast, a cast of characters who at once castigate and celebrate their literary comrades who have gone before. Tim Picasso: Our hero. Handsome young intellectual and frustrated painter who has fled to the Admiral Benbow with some ill-gotten drug money. Jesus Castro: It's his cash, and he's going to get it back, even if it means a weekend away from Miami. Enjoys S&M and Cuban cigars. Mr. Glowery: Bitter New York journalist, writer, and speaker at the Fiction Workshop hosted by the Admiral Benbow. Shameless self-promoter, mercilessly persecuted by a possibly nonexistent rival author, and on the verge of nervous breakdown. George Hawthorne (of the Massachusetts Hawthornes): Hapless Innkeeper and hopeless Anglophile. Harvard. Oxford. A bit of a drunk. Magdalene Hawthorne: The Innkeeper's philandering wife. Is it Tim she really wants, or Simone, Castro's dominatrix? Partial to hot tubs. Mr. Briscoe: The geriatric Yankee contractor who is restoring, and trapped out in, the old lighthouse. Partial to red women's party shoes and power tools (always buys American). Professor Menelaus Eggman, BA, MA, MFA, Ph.D.: Subject of Mr. Glowery's vengeance and leader of the Fiction Workshop. Suffers increasingly a disorder of the intellect which renders everything he says racially or sexually (or both!) offensive gibberish. Sometimes sardonic, often outrageous, always hilarious, Light House is a singular adventure, full of literary spoofs and riffs, grand in the tradition it seeks to dismantle. A deftly written comedy, absolutely original, and destined to become a classic on its own. 8.25"x5.5", 223 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. William J. Monahan is an American screenwriter and novelist. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2000 Monahan's first novel, Light House: A Trifle, was finally published, and it garnered critical acclaim; The New York Times proclaimed, "Monahan's cocksure prose gallops along" and BookPage Fiction called Monahan "a worthy successor to Kingsley Amis.". Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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