Phantom Pain by Arnon Grunberg

Phantom Pain

Arnon Grunberg

277 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction literary dark mysterious slow-paced
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Phantom Pain is ideal for readers who appreciate darkly comedic, introspective narratives exploring the complexities of artistic downfall and redemption, wrapped in a layered, metafictional structure.

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Once a literary novelist of some respectability, now brought low by the double insult of obscurity and debt, Robert G. Mehlman is a man in need of money and recognition, fast. So he turns to cookery writing. 'Phantom Pain' consists largely of the ...

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