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The Award , by Matthew Pearl $24 $30 now 20% off $24

An aspiring — you might say grasping — novelist named David Trent moves into an unheated attic apartment with his fiancée. They can’t really afford it, but one of David’s heroes lives below, an important writer in the John Cheever–Philip Roth mold. It turns out the author is hostile and cruel, as far from a mentor as you could imagine — until Davi

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