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Product Description Mark Harris took you out to the ballgame in his Henry Wiggen novels, The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly, A Ticket for a Seamstitch, and It Looked Like For Ever. In The Tale Maker, he takes you to college.Rimrose was wellread, smart, and strong. As the editor of the campus Sentinel, he was perfectly placed to observe how a university worked, and ideally inclined to expose its ethical weaknesses.Supported by his parents, he could concentrate on things that mattered: his writing, his wifetobe, and his friends and enemiesincluding the warped Kakapick, who serves Rimrose lastingly as model and prototype of the literary scoundrel.RimroseTale Maker of the titleturns from journalism to fictionwriting, kept alive by his wifes practical and ingenious devotion to selling his stories, even those he has tossed in the trash. As he grows older and begets children, he worries about income and faces stultifying choices: managing his fathers smalltown newspaper or playing politics in university service. Review A plot that carries no spare parts and a gentle reader style of address combine with Dickensian characters to give the feel of a classic. . . . A wry, selfreferential story that exalts the writer, trounces the critic, and avows that both are liars. Sic semper Mark Harris.Kirkus ReviewsA wonderful story. . . . quality fiction with staying power.Library JournalAbsorbing . . . a true rarity . . . passages rich with author Harriss love and understanding of his craft. . . . Rimroses struggles to forge art from life fascinate.Publishers Weekly From the Back Cover Rimrose was wellread, smart, and strong. As editor of the campus 'Sentinel, ' he was perfectly placed to observe how a university worked, and ideally inclined to expose its ethical weaknesses. RimroseTale Maker of the titleturns from journalism to fictionwriting, kept alive by his wife's practical and ingenious devotion to selling his stories, even those he has tossed in the trash. As he grows older and begets children, he worries about income and faces stultifying choices: managing his father's smalltown newspaper or playing politics in university service. About the Author Mark Harris is a professor of English at Arizona State University. His celebrated baseball novels have also been reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press.
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