Comedy writers

A Confederacy of Dunces meets The Player in an offbeat, sidesplittingly hilarious novel about making it against all odds in 1990s' Hollywood, by the cowriter/director of Dumb and Dumber.When Henry Halloran's girlfriend dumped him, his Bostonbased life suddenly seemed pointless.  He was thirtytwo with a deadend job, and nothing on the horizon.  There was obviously only one place to go: Hollywood.The Comedy Writer is the story of how Henryarmed with nothing more than a few ideas, a nothingtolose attitude, and the desire to be a screenwriterjoins myriad hopefuls in the City of Angels and achieves an L.A.  kind of fame.  From the surreal squalor of his oneroom pad at the Blue Terrace apartments, he encounters nympho starlets, deathobsessed Rollerbladers, philosophical midgets, scruplefree producers, and an unforgettably psychotic roommate named Colleen.Combining the mordant wit and insight of Nathanael West with the lyricism and irony of a postmodern Candide, The Comedy Writer 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.Sure to appeal to anyone who has ever dreamed of Hollywood success, who has found him or herself a fullfledged adult without a clue for the future, or who ever thought Los Angeles might represent the end of modern civilization, The Coedy Writer is an incomparable comic tour de force marked by the kind of telling detail only a true insider can provide.From the Trade Paperback edition.