"Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a psych ologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal\, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novel ist with a respectably published first book. Today\, he's teaching in a th ird-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-re spect\; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. Wh en Evan Parker\, his most arrogant student\, announces he doesn't need Jak e's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing\, Jake i s prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's f irst novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died\, presumably without ever completing his book\, Jake does what an y self-respecting writer would do with a story like that-a story that abso lutely needs to be told. In a few short years\, all of Evan Parker's predi ctions have come true\, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is we althy\, famous\, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life\, an e-mail arrives\, the first salvo in a terrifyi ng\, anonymous campaign: You are a thief\, it says. As Jake struggles to u nderstand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publi shers\, he begins to learn more about his late student\, and what he disco vers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker\, and how did he g et the idea for his "sure thing" of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot\, and who stole it from whom?"--
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