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The Web and the Rock, by Thomas Wolfe
Posted by labeau on May 30th, 2008 filed in books
The web and the rock, by Thomas Wolfe.
Originally published in 1939.
The protagonist in The Web and the Rock, George Weber, writes a novel deemed unpublishable due to its extreme length—lazy editors send him insulting rejection letters without bothering to read the manuscript, alcoholic writers give it backhanded praise after admitting to having only read “a [...]