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Contributor(s): Dillen, Frederick (Author), Pearl, Nancy (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 1612183689     ISBN-13: 9781612183688
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous - General
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2013431882
Series: Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" L (0.80 lbs) 299 pages
 
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Self-absorbed Barnaby Griswold has to lose it all--money, homes, and family--before he gets a shot at becoming the unlikely hero of his own life.

Griswold is indisputably a fool. A well-educated, well-connected investments player on the one hand, but an entitled money-driven cretin on the other. His life changes almost overnight when he's found to have acted slimily (but not illegally) by selling a stock short. His wife deserts him, his daughters disown him, and he loses his final and favorite home. At forty-six, disgraced and broke and lonely, Barnaby must repair his life to find redemption.

Out of print for more than a decade, Frederick G. Dillen's comic novel about an unlikely hero is now being reissued as part of librarian and NPR commentator Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries series.


Contributor Bio(s): Dillen, Frederick G.: - Frederick G. Dillen was born in Greenwich Village to a family on fire, raised in a New Hampshire boarding school, and graduated from Stanford. To pay for his writing, he worked odd jobs from Lahaina to Taos and New York to L.A., managing a hotel and running a fake ranch, carrying plates and shilling for business. His short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His Hero was named Best First Novel of 1994 by the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Dillen and his wife Leslie are parents of two grown daughters and three dogs and have settled, for good they hope, in New Mexico.
 
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