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    The Killing of an Author
    The Killing of an Author
    The Killing of an Author
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    The Killing of an Author

    By Richard Crasta

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    A universal story of writers, publishers, editors and their comic, tragic, heartening, and sometimes uplifting world. A small town Indian boy sets out to be a successful novelist in America. After a period at Columbia University, he writes his novel and meets John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, three Nobel Prizewinners, Marilyn Monroe's husband Arthur Miller, and The World's Most Powerful Editor. And then, he screws up (or perhaps it's more complicated than that, perhaps he is simply unaware of the Rules and the Taboos?)..

    Writers as well as general readers with romantic notions about the writers' life and publishing may find this an astonishing story, with its subversive humor (noted in very complimentary reviews by "The Week" and "The Deccan Chronicle"), and its analysis of the literary Establishment.

    The Killing of an Author has been described as a nonfiction publishing thriller, a wild roller coaster ride, and as having "a sense of humour from start to end." Richard Crasta's first novel, The Revised Kama Sutra, has been published in ten countries and seven languages

    The Killing of an Author tells a story that has been described as "laugh-out-loud funny", "an act of  bravery", and as possessing "integrity." It is the third book of Richard Crasta's Freedom Trilogy.

    "Crasta has a sense of humour which he maintains from the start to the end. Funny, sad, and eye-opening. . . .We need more writers like him." --The Deccan Chronicle

    "You are funny and delightful . . . and nowhere are you too heavy to carry. I've never read anyone like you. I laugh, I ache, I smile, I cry - but never close the book without that smile surfacing."--Sheelagh Grenon, Canada

    "More than a book . . . an act of bravery."--Review

    About 74,000 words or 270 paperback pages

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInvisible Man Press
    Release dateOct 4, 2013
    ISBN9781501428098
    The Killing of an Author
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    Richard Crasta

    Richard Crasta is the India-born, long-time New York-resident author of "The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel" and 12 other books, with at least 12 more conceived or in progress. "The Revised Kama Sutra," a novel about a young man growing up and making sense of the world and of sex, was described by Kurt Vonnegut as "very funny," and has been published in ten countries and in seven languages.Richard's books include fiction, nonfiction, essays, autobiography, humor, and satire with a political edge: anti-censorship, non-pc, pro-laughter, pro-food, pro-beer, and against fanaticism of any kind. His books have been described as "going where no Indian writer has gone before," and attempt to present an unedited, uncensored voice (James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth are among the novelists who have inspired him.).Richard was born and grew up in India, joined the Indian Administrative Service, then moved to America to become a writer, and has traveled widely. Though technically still a New York resident, he spends most of his time in Asia working on his books in progress and part-time as a freelance book editor.

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