Tearjerker

“Tearjerker is very funny, very well crafted, very sly in its insights. Daniel Hayes has a winner here: all the pleasures of a revenge novel, of meta-fiction, of a wicked roman a clef, and even of a love story. I devoured this book and have been thinking about it ever since.” —Arthur Phillips, author of Prague and The Egyptologist

Once his writerly dreams of fame and recognition having stalled, Evan Ulmer takes matters into his own hands. He kidnaps a renowned editor, Robert Partnow, and cages him in a basement equipped with a TV, a treadmill, and a Porta-John. While Evan shares his sense of failure, Bob reveals his own unsavory secrets, and together they watch the media spin their situation into a lurid tale of abduction and infidelity. Blurring the boundaries between fiction and real life, cunning and sincerity, flirtation and true love, Tearjerker unfolds in startling directions that make the reader wonder along with Evan, “Was abduction a difficult and gutsy endeavor or, instead, the predictable last resort of the desperately stupid?”

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