Miles Walker, You're Dead
By Linda Jaivin
2001
First Published
3.24
Average Rating
272
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An ambitious young artist, Miles Walker is stunned to discover that the fastest path to success is through his death, a situation that his colorful roommates and a beautiful politician with a hatred for artists seem all-too-interested in achieving, in a satirical romp through the worlds of art, politics, and pop culture. Original. 10,000 first printing.
Avg Rating
3.24
Number of Ratings
58
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Author
Linda Jaivin
Author · 8 books
Linda Jaivin is the author of twelve books, including the forthcoming (May 2021) The Shortest History of China and the novel The Empress Lover, published in April 2014 as well as the travel companion Beijing, published in July 2014. Other major publications include the Quarterly Essay: Found in Translation (late 2013), five novels and a novella, a collection of essays (Confessions of an S&M Virgin) and a China memoir (Monkey and the Dragon). Her first novel was the internationally bestselling comic erotic Eat Me. The Empress Lover follows A Most Immoral Woman, which is set in China and Japan in 1904 and based on a true story. She is also a translator from Chinese and a playwright. She was the winner of the 2014 New South Wales Writers Fellowship.
