‘Deliciously funny’ Helen Oyeyemi‘Enormously entertaining’ Lionel Shriver‘Smart, brilliant … I love it so much!’ Joanna CannonA wickedly caustic tale of a student who stumbles on a literary treasure.Anna Brisker is running out of ideas.Her PhD advisor thinks she’s a let-down, her fellow students see her as roadkill on the way to academic success and her family have just stopped asking when she’s going to get a real job.Then Anna Brisker stumbles on a rare notebook that could make her a literary sensation. If only she didn’t have to break the law to get it…Talent is a deliciously wry portrayal of a brittle and brilliant young woman, and a wicked lampooning of campus life.
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Juliet Lapidos. Talent
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Happy Holidays
Other People’s Perspiration
The Notebook
Freddy Remembered
A Cliché
The Notebook
Life-Hacking
A Level of Incompetence
The Notebook
Writer’s Block
Fieldwork
The Notebook
Cemetery Picnic
Dreamwork
The Notebook
If a Scholar’s a Parasite
He Owed Her
The Notebook
Like a Mute Animal on an Operating Table
The Notebook
Ura Joke
The Yellow Legal Pad
His True Intentions
007: Golden Sorrow
Julia Maria Lustgarten
A Soft Target
Idiocy and Confusion
Pure Pointlessness
A Letter of Explanation
Of Course
Anna Remembered
Footnotes. Life-Hacking
Fieldwork
He Owed Her
007: Golden Sorrow
Pure Pointlessness
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Publisher
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For Barry, the guardian of my solitude
—FREDERICK LANGLEY
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Helen scrunched her nose, either because she didn’t like English or because her tea was too bitter.
