PECK & PECK by Bonnie Garmus (Manilla £22, 448pp)
This follow-up to global sensation Lessons In Chemistry concerns Batter Gray, a hapless poetry enthusiast.
Via an inconclusive degree course and a series of dead-end jobs, he gets his big break on legendary literary quarterly Peck & Peck.
The opportunity of his dreams turns into a nightmare when the mag turns out to be run by a dysfunctional family headed by a Donald Trump figure.
The appearance of Peck & Peck in a blockbuster action film whose kick-ass star harbours literary ambitions is the final disastrous complication.
This high-spirited, inventive novel enjoyably satirises literary types and
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