Starting Out in the Evening
- ISBN-10
- 0156033410
- ISBN-13
- 9780156033411
- Category
- Authors and readers
- Pages
- 325
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Brian Morton
Description
Leonard Schiller, an aging author, now barely remembered by the literary world that once embraced him, is courted by Heather Wolfe, the young graduate student who wants to write her master's thesis on him. By the author of The Dylanist. Reprint. (A Roadside Attractions film, written by Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner, directed by Andrew Wagner, releasing Fall 2007, starring Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, & Lili Taylor) (General Fiction)
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