Wake Up, Stupid
Mark Harris
Originally written in 1959, this is the hilariously explosive account of Youngdahl, a novelist, playwright, ex-Mormon, and father of seven. He is a frenzied man who is beginning a letter-writing campaign to escape his curiously ironic situation, and, of course, his profession. Along with Abner Klang, his not-so-literary agent who seems to have misplaced the F key on his typewriter, Youngdahl joins forces with a Mormon bishop, a TV adapter, and a prizefighter, among others, to spearhead a comic revolution.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN-13
- 9781497635210
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Writer's life and creative strugglesComic satire of profession and identityFamily and fatherhood
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1960)
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