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"In Passionate Spectator, memoirist Peter Leroy and his wife, Albertine, are living in Manhattan - by the skin of their teeth. Casting about for a source of income, Peter purchases a book from a homeless street corner peddler, Creative Self-Promotion for Taxidermists, hoping he can adapt its techniques to promote his fledgling business, Memoirs While You Wait, a writing service designed to satisfy the contemporary compulsion for confession and self-revelation." "That book opens into a journey from fiction to truth and back again, involving Peter, his childhood friend Matthew Barber (a…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2005Picador · 245 pages · 9780312424848
- Other · English · 2004St. Martin's Press · 245 pages · 9780312318826
AutobiographyMale friendshipSelf-employedFictionAuthorshipGhostwritersNew york (n.y.), fictionFiction, psychological