In this "captivating" (Time Out New York) novel, an aging author—now out of print and barely remembered by the literary world that once fleetingly embraced him—is courted by a brash young graduate student who wants to write her thesis on him. What ensues is a story that is at once comical, sensitive and sharply insightful—a work that has already earned astonishing reviews, and that "in every way fulfills the promise of Morton' s lovely first novel, The Dylanist.*"