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American writer is supposed to be very grave and solemn and really provincial and take himself very seriously and write the best book in the world — and, of course,
459:, I realized I could buy it back. It was an empty, damaging gesture." In an interview with Collider.com he stated that, "It was demoralizing to write a really good book and to realize how little the rewards were, even though the book did quite well, as far as first novels are concerned."
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and other modern masters of drollery" in the novel, concluding that "n the end, the girl gets the girl, the bad guys lose, and an old Yankee blows himself up with the eponymous lighthouse and a few chunks of the
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journalist and writer who believes that a rival author is sabotaging his literary career, arrives in Tyburn where he is to speak at a fiction workshop being held at the
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sailboat. When the captain gets drunk and falls overboard, Picasso takes the boat to
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