The work is innocent [Hardcover]

Rafael Yglesias (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1976

 

The critically acclaimed novel from a master of contemporary American fiction—now available as an ebook

A funny, candid look at the beginning of a promising literary career launched remarkably early

 

Being a teenage literary prodigy is hard. Richard Goodman may have a book contract at seventeen, but his parents don’t respect his opinions, he can’t lose his virginity, and his ego inflates and deflates with every breath. Even when Richard receives the attention he craves, he finds that fame and fortune can’t deliver him from his own flaws.

 

The Work Is Innocent is Yglesias’s fictional take on his own freakishly precocious literary coming-out as a teen. Written with startlingly self-assured prose and unflinching self-awareness, this novel explores the hilarious and harrowing complications of youthful success.

 

This ebook features a new illustrated biography of Rafael Yglesias, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

 

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“It is a spectacular achievement, while you are still growing up, to write a good novel about growing up—which is what this author did at age fifteen. Now, at the ripe age of twenty-two, Rafael Yglesias looks over his shoulder and tells what it was like. Another bull’s-eye.” —The New York Times Book Review

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 156 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385009658
• ISBN-13: 978-0385009652
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,917,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rafael Yglesias is an American novelist and screenwriter, the son of writers Jose and Helen Yglesias. He dropped out of high school upon publication of his first novel, Hide Fox, And All After in 1972 at age 17. He is the author of nine novels, including A Happy Marriage, winner of the 2009 Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize, Dr. Neruda's Cure For Evil and Fearless, which he adapted for the screen. He also wrote the screenplays for Death And The Maiden, Les Miserables, From Hell, and Dark Water. He has two sons: Matthew Yglesias, a Fellow at the Center For American Progress, public intellectual and author of Heads In The Sand; Nicholas Yglesias is a fantasy novelist who has recently completed Succession, the first of a three volume trilogy. Rafael lives in the city of his birth, New York.