The Writing Class

Resumen del libro

Amy Gallup is gifted, perhaps too gifted for her own good. Published at only twenty-two, she peaked early and found critical but not commercial success. Now her former life is gone, along with her writing career and beloved husband. A reclusive widow, her sole companion a dour, flatulent basset hound who barely tolerates her, her daily mantra "Kill Me Now," she is a loner afraid to be alone. Her only bright spot each week is the writing class that she teaches at the university extension.
This semester's class is full of the usual suspects: the doctor who wants to be the next Robin Cook, the overly enthusiastic repeat student, the slacker, the unassuming student with the hidden talent, the prankster, the know-it-all.... Amy's seen them all before. But something is very different about this class---and the clues begin with a scary phone call in the middle of the night and obscene threats instead of peer evaluations on student writing assignments. Amy soon realizes that one of her students is a very sick puppy, and when a member of the class is murdered, everyone becomes a suspect. As she dissects each student's writing for clues, Amy must enlist the help of everyone in her class, including the murderer, to find the killer among them.

Biografía del autor

Jincy Willett. Vive en California, y es escritora y editora. Ha impartido clases de escritura en la Universidad de Brown y en la de San Diego. Actualmente se dedica al asesoramiento literario online. Su labor como crítica aparece en prestigiosas publicaciones como The New York Times. Sus relatos cortos se incluyeron en antologías como Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules o The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction y en revistas como Cosmopolitan o The Yale Review. Recibió las alabanzas de la crítica con su primera obra, Jenny and the Jaws of Life. Su segundo libro, Winner of the National Book Award fue publicado en 2002 y se convirtió en un éxito de ventas. El taller de escritura sigue el mismo camino.