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NOVEMBER BOOK CLUB NEWS
Book Club will meet on November 6th in the Friends Meeting Room on the Library Plaza.
The plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Plot
by Jean Hanff Korelitz

"Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teachingin a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot ofhis book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that-a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his "sure thing" of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?"
 
Information about the book:
 
SuperSummary analysis and character descriptions, plus discussion questions
 
The Plot Author on Jimmy Fallon
 
Author interview on the Book Report Network
 
Biography of the author
 
Jean Hanff Korelitz, Author of The Plot, on Artistic Appropriation, Adaptations, and Asking “What If”
 
Jean Hanff Korelitz: ‘I wanted to be a literary novelist. But I realised that I liked plot’
 

 
 
 
 
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