Brian Morton
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Starting Out in the Evening: A Novel
Brian Morton
Leonard Schiller is a writer in his seventies. All of his books are out of print; he’s left no mark in literary history; a lifetime of dedicated labor has brought him few rewards. Heather Wolfe is a graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller’s novels when she was growing up, and they changed her life. She decides to write her master’s thesis about Schiller’s work, and she sets out to meet him.
Starting Out in the Evening is a novel about the unexpected consequences of that meeting—and the unexpected consequences of art. Heather blows into…
