{"product_id":"the-comedy-writer-9780385490528","title":"The Comedy Writer","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Player\u003c\/i\u003e in an offbeat, sidesplittingly hilarious novel about making it against all odds in 1990s' Hollywood, by the co-writer\/director of \u003ci\u003eDumb and Dumber.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Henry Halloran's girlfriend dumped him, his Boston-based life suddenly seemed pointless. He was thirty-two with a dead-end job, and nothing on the horizon. There was obviously only one place to go: Hollywood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Comedy Writer\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how Henry--armed with nothing more than a few ideas, a nothing-to-lose attitude, and the desire to be a screenwriter--joins myriad hopefuls in the City of Angels and achieves an L.A. kind of fame. From the surreal squalor of his one-room pad at the Blue Terrace apartments, he encounters nympho starlets, death-obsessed Rollerbladers, philosophical midgets, scruple-free producers, and an unforgettably psychotic roommate named Colleen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining the mordant wit and insight of Nathanael West with the lyricism and irony of a postmodern \u003ci\u003eCandide, The Comedy Writer\u003c\/i\u003e is a bawdy romp around and through the dream factory, in which Henry learns that while talent and integrity may be relative terms, life does, after all, have meaning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSure to appeal to anyone who has ever dreamed of Hollywood success, who has found him- or herself a full-fledged adult without a clue for the future, or whoever thought Los Angeles might represent the end of modern civilization, \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy Writer\u003c\/i\u003e is an incomparable comic tour de force marked by the kind of telling detail only a true insider can provide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Main Street Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385490528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.07w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1998 pg. 419\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/13\/1998 pg. 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/1998 pg. 112\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Farrelly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44916303003829,"sku":"9780385490528","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_37dfaa23-ce5c-4c41-a676-f672eddad3a1.jpg?v=1734449862","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-comedy-writer-9780385490528","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}