Novelists

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Longlisted for the 2014 Frank OConnor AwardNovelists: the soul of an age, certainly. Brilliant? Perhaps. Yet arent they also doddering, petulant, pedantic, knockkneed, skittish, and thunderingly insecureresentful, awkward, annoyingdemanding, deluded, and vexingly indifferent to reality? New from short fiction devote C.P. Boyko,Novelistsis a comedy of manners (and manuscripts), rivallingVanity Fairfor its satirical wit though not, mercifully, for its length.Praise forNovelistsProudly, gloriously, gleefully old-fashioned in their style and settings, these largely comic stories about the worst traits of artists are more serious than they at first seem: they depict the petty insecurities that fuel every creative act.Russell SmithIf you are a normal person, these stories, with their pitch-perfect satirical humour and their finely tuned sentences, will make you laugh out loud. If you are a writer, first you will squirm with recognition while envying his impressive vocabulary, his nimble grammar, and his startling imagery, and then youll laugh out loud.Diane Schoemperlen