Saturday Night at San Marcos

By William Packard

Book Overview

In a bawdy, irreverent send-up of the literary scene, this riotous odyssey has blocked writer Eliot Morrison swept from New York with its agents, actresses, and "desperation panic states" to the seedy, one-grand Hotel San Marcos on the California coast, for a week-long writers' conference. While his fellow writers are driven by literary ambitions to savage one another's work and one another, Eliot finds himself at the center of a bizarre turn of events that culminates in senseless and absurd violence. Laying bare the lives and illusions of professional and would-be writers as well as the hangers-on who inhabit the literary world, this novel is sexy, outrageous, devastating, and satirical. It has a compassion for its characters whose parallel lives, propelled by ambition and disappointment, turn to collide head-on in fulfillment of relentless destiny.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394622731
• ISBN13: 9780394622736
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mean-spirited and hilarious

Highly recommended. Anyone who has ever attended a writers' conference, or even a workshop, will recognize these characters. Humor as only a committed misanthrope can perpetrate it.