Amy Falls Down - Hardcover

"I loved this novel--it's totally brilliant--witty and mordant and filled with these wonderful insights into the state of publishing and writing and the way we are now. I thought Willett couldn't top Winner of the National Book Award, but I was wrong--this one definitely does." --Nancy Pearl"Willett uses her charmingly filterless heroine as a mouthpiece to slam a parade of thinly veiled literati and media personalities with riotous accuracy, but she balances the snark with moments of poignancy." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A smart and witty tale." --San Diego Union-Tribune I loved this novel--it's totally brilliant--witty and mordant and filled with these wonderful insights into the state of publishing and writing and the way we are now. I thought Willett couldn't top "Winner of the National Book Award," but I was wrong--this one definitely does. "Nancy Pearl" Willett uses her charmingly filterless heroine as a mouthpiece to slam a parade of thinly veiled literati and media personalities with riotous accuracy, but she balances the snark with moments of poignancy. "Publishers Weekly (starred review)" A smart and witty tale. "San Diego Union-Tribune"" Praise for "Amy Falls Down: ""I loved this novel--it's totally brilliant--witty and mordant and filled with these wonderful insights into the state of publishing and writing and the way we are now. I thought Willett couldn't top "Winner of the National Book Award", but I was wrong--this one definitely does."--Nancy Pearl"Willett uses her charmingly filterless heroine as a mouthpiece to slam a parade of thinly veiled literati and media personalities with riotous accuracy, but she balances the snark with moments of poignancy."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)"A smart and witty tale."--"San Diego Union-Tribune"Praise for "The Writing Class: ""Willet's delicious satire savages every literary pretension imaginable."--"The Miami Herald""A marvelous toy of a book, full of wry surprises and sly twists...extremely clever and quite enjoyable." --"Booklist"Praise for "Winner of the National Book Award" "The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever." --Augusten Burroughs"Riotous [and] hugely funny." --"The New York Times""The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. . . . A." --"Entertainment Weekly""Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett's novel is exuberantly original."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "An elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery. Jincy Willett is a fearless writer, capable of startling the reader into rueful laughter at every turn."--Tom PerrottaPraise for "Jenny and the Jaws of Life: ""Exquisite...A great, darkly comic collection."--Esquire "The funniest collection of stories I've ever read--really funny and perfectly sad at the same time."--David Sedaris Praise for "The Writing Class: ""Willet's delicious satire savages every literary pretension imaginable."--"The Miami Herald""A marvelous toy of a book, full of wry surprises and sly twists...extremely clever and quite enjoyable." --"Booklist"Praise for "Winner of the National Book Award" "The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever." --Augusten Burroughs"Riotous [and] hugely funny." --"The New York Times""The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. . . . A." --"Entertainment Weekly""Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett's novel is exuberantly original."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "An elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery. Jincy Willett is a fearless writer, capable of startling the reader into rueful laughter at every turn."--Tom PerrottaPraise for "Jenny and the Jaws of Life: ""Exquisite...A great, darkly comic collection."--Esquire "The funniest collection of stories I've ever read--really funny and perfectly sad at the same time."--David Sedaris Praise for "Winner of the National Book Award" "The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever." --Augusten Burroughs"Riotous [and] hugely funny." --"The New York Times""The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. . . . A." --"Entertainment Weekly"

The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing-she's done a lot of thinking...but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers, Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a birdbath. The hospital clears her of head injury - so Amy returns home. When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview - Amy is not quite herself. The article paints Amy as a the zen-goddess of writing, publishing...and life. Her bizarre interview was interpreted as the rambling of a true genius. But all that really happened was: Amy fell down! The next thing she knows, friends and fans are coming out of the woodwork. Suddenly Amy is on radio shows, keynoting a major publishing event, and guiding a local writers' retreat. But the strangest thing of all: Amy starts to write.