TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pearl,Matthew
TI  - The award: a novel 
SN  - 9780063445277
AV  - PS3616.E25 A97 2025
U1  - 813/.6 23/eng/20251020
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Novelists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Competition
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Literary prizes
KW  - Cambridge (Mass.)
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Satirical fiction
N2  - "David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster who refuses to allow his new neighbor even to make eye contact with him--until young David wins a prestigious award for his new book.  Suddenly Silas is interested--if intensely spiteful. But soon, the administrator of the award comes to David with alarming news, forcing the writer into a desperate set of choices"--
ER  -