Peck & Peck : a novel / Bonnie Garmus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garmus, Bonnie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Periodical editors--Fiction.

Periodical editors.

Poetry--Publishing--Fiction.

Poetry.

Work environment--Fiction.

Work environment.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

418 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Peck and Peck

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Scribner, 2026.

Summary:

"Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest. It's 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants--an 'ear' for poetry--is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he's folding T-shirts at the Gap. As for love? No. Not unless you count Sallie Mae, the student loan tyrant. He hears from Sallie all the time. But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the famous Peck brothers--twins and enemies--as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose professed mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest. And by burn, they mean incinerate. Because at Peck & Peck, 'good' isn't good enough, 'interesting' doesn't cut it, plagiarists aren't tolerated, and parolees run the mailroom. Still want to submit your poem? Go with God"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

166825106X

9781668251065

OCLC:

1575280433