Full name: Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

Author: Dermot Davis Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780984418138 098441813X

It's the classic dilemma of the writer: Do you write what's in your heart or do you write what sells? In this modern age of publishing there is a huge chasm between the best selling authors that are rich beyond their dreams and... well, everybody else. All Daniel Waterstone ever wanted to do was write the great American novel and change the landscape of modern literature forever. He has two literary books in print but no one's buying. His agent won't even accept his latest masterpiece which he poured his soul into: apparently, it's not commercial enough. In a final act of desperation, Daniel decides to write - not what's in his heart but - what he thinks will sell. Boy, did he get that one wrong... worst of all, most likely lose the woman of his dreams. Similar books: Up and Down by Terry Fallis Serious Men by Manu Joseph Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn The Tin Men by Michael Frayn Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson Zigzag Street by Nick Earls Zen and Sex by Dermot Davis A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Schooled by Gordon Korman The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar Miss Daisy Is Crazy! by Dan Gutman Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor The Fencepost Chronicles by W. P. Kinsella Truth In Advertising by John Kenney Tik-Tok by John Sladek A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews Fender Benders by Bill Fitzhugh Hope by Shalom Auslander