The Pretender - David Belbin Reviews
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Newest Review: ... experts and linguists claim they're 90% sure that the story is genuine, who is Mark to correct them? He only gets mad because ... more
... the Americans cheat him out of the reward, he had told them that he had found the story on a flea market.
As a student of Eng Lit in London he finds a job as an amanuensis and general dogsbody for Tony, the editor of a small but brilliant literary magazine and a room in the building in Soho where the office is. It doesn't take long for him to realise that the magazine is in financial trouble and that it'll die an inglorious death in the near future. One of his tasks is to sort out the chaotic store room, what...more
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The Pretender - David Belbin: Forged Fiction (845 words)by - written on 11/08/10, updated on 11/08/10 (Very useful, 124 readings)
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Bookworms like reading books dealing with books. The Pretender is just one of the kind and thus recommended to this species. When Mark Trace is 14 years old, his teacher of English gives the class the assignment to write the beginning of a chapter of David Copperfield. "...pretend you *are* Dickens." Mark is proud of what he's come up with but to his great surprise his teacher threatens him with detention if he doesn't 'fess up were he copied his text from. To save himself he mutters something about The American Notes, a title he makes up like he's made up his piece of Dickens. After finishing school he decides to spend a gap year in ... Read the complete review
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