A big, funny, engaging, unsentimental and sometimes even wise book...Delightful."--New York Post Author of Lookaway, Lookaway Wilton Barnhardt's novel of coming of age in New York City brims with energy, surprise, irresistible humor, and the heady rush of youth. Its hero, Gil Freeman, a midwestern aspiring actor, comes to the city in search of stardom--but instead encounters the perils of Alphabet City, the desperation of off-off-off-Broadway theater...and the exhilarating, exasperating,...
A big, funny, engaging, unsentimental and sometimes even wise book...Delightful."--New York Post A...
Author of Emma Who Saved My Life and Lookaway, Lookaway
The author of the beloved novels Gospel, Emma Who Saved My Life, and Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt is a writer of rare and extraordinary talent who has yet to walk the same ground twice. With Show World, he offers a contemporary woman's story that will haunt its every reader. Samantha Flint, the figure at the book's center, flees the Midwest for Smith College to shake her past, to invent a future she can live with. There she meets the redoubtable Mimi Mohr; together and...
Author of Emma Who Saved My Life and Lookaway, Lookaway
The author of the beloved novels Gospel, Emma Who Sa...
