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The Great Pretender

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Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, Jun 1, 1987 - Fiction - 277 pages
Ben Janis's assault on the citadels of culture carries him and his poems from a Chicago suburb, through a confused love life, to poetry contests, the Harvard "Advocate," and the quadrangles of Oxford

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First time novel and a funny coming-of-age story of boy with literary pretensions. Read full review

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Section 2
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Section 3
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About the author (1987)

James Atlas is the founding editor of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives Series. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine for many years. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review, and many other journals. He is the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet, which was nominated for a National Book Award.

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