Misery Boy

By Rose Servis

Fiction. At a liberal arts college in Michigan in 1980, the strange, perplexing poems by Roger Ackroyd have won him a cult following. But who is Roger Ackroyd? Just about the only person on campus not asking that question is Edward, Roger Ackroyd's secret creator. Instead, Edward is flunking his girlfriend's psych class, fighting with his family, and suffering writer's block. Enter Jonathan, a rival artist pretending to be Roger Ackroyd. Jonathan is everything Edward hates--phony, pretentious, narcissistic, and self-serving. In his last week of college, Edward's obsession with exposing Jonathan leads to a series of comically unwise decisions that threaten to reveal his true identity. A hilarious college novel in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis, MISERY BOY skewers the nature of youth, friendship, and ambition, while making us feel for the lovable, but hapless Edward.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733367225
• ISBN13: 9781733367226
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: 7.13 Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"