{"product_id":"the-comedy-writer-9780385490528","title":"The Comedy Writer","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Player\u003c\/i\u003e in an offbeat, sidesplittingly hilarious novel about making it against all odds in 1990s' Hollywood, by the co-writer\/director of \u003ci\u003eDumb and Dumber.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Henry Halloran's girlfriend dumped him, his Boston-based life suddenly seemed pointless. He was thirty-two with a dead-end job, and nothing on the horizon. There was obviously only one place to go: Hollywood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Comedy Writer\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how Henry--armed with nothing more than a few ideas, a nothing-to-lose attitude, and the desire to be a screenwriter--joins myriad hopefuls in the City of Angels and achieves an L.A. kind of fame. From the surreal squalor of his one-room pad at the Blue Terrace apartments, he encounters nympho starlets, death-obsessed Rollerbladers, philosophical midgets, scruple-free producers, and an unforgettably psychotic roommate named Colleen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining the mordant wit and insight of Nathanael West with the lyricism and irony of a postmodern \u003ci\u003eCandide, The Comedy Writer\u003c\/i\u003e is a bawdy romp around and through the dream factory, in which Henry learns that while talent and integrity may be relative terms, life does, after all, have meaning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSure to appeal to anyone who has ever dreamed of Hollywood success, who has found him- or herself a full-fledged adult without a clue for the future, or whoever thought Los Angeles might represent the end of modern civilization, \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy Writer\u003c\/i\u003e is an incomparable comic tour de force marked by the kind of telling detail only a true insider can provide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Farrelly\u003c\/b\u003e is a screenwriter and director, and the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eOutside Providence.\u003c\/i\u003e He attended Providence College and Columbia University. Peter and his brother Bobby are known for directing gross-out comedy movies such as \u003ci\u003eDumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary, Me, Myself and Irene\u003c\/i\u003e, and others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Main Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923983667474,"sku":"9780385490528","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77d24618-dcb1-46a9-b0cc-c493c66043ad.jpg?v=1738967056","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-comedy-writer-9780385490528","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}