My Purple Scented Novel

A Short Story

Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Short Stories, Literary
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Author: Ian McEwan ISBN: 9780525564584
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: June 19, 2018
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780525564584
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: June 19, 2018
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

A jewel of a short story from the author of Atonement and Nutshell—“My Purple Scented Novel”follows the perfect crime of literary betrayal, scrupulously wrought yet unscrupulously executed. Published to celebrate Ian McEwan’s 70th birthday.
 
“You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade. . . . You’d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coincided with, though did not cause, my decline. . . . I don’t deny there was wrongdoing. I stole a life, and I don’t intend to give it back. You may treat these few pages as a confession.”

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A jewel of a short story from the author of Atonement and Nutshell—“My Purple Scented Novel”follows the perfect crime of literary betrayal, scrupulously wrought yet unscrupulously executed. Published to celebrate Ian McEwan’s 70th birthday.
 
“You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade. . . . You’d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coincided with, though did not cause, my decline. . . . I don’t deny there was wrongdoing. I stole a life, and I don’t intend to give it back. You may treat these few pages as a confession.”

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