At age 9, Frank's daily attire includes tailcoats, yacht wear, cufflinks, a top hat, and a fez. Thus, a young Nebraskan blonde named Alice Whitley is dropped into the weird world of this mother-son duo. She inveigles her publisher to send her a huge advance and a full-time assistant to manage her household and take care of her son, Frank. But now she's been "swindled of her fortune by a crooked investment adviser" and has to get a book out pronto. Banning, "a college dropout from Nowheresville, Alabama," who "wrote Pitched, a novel that won her a Pulitzer and a National Book Award by the time she turned 20." That was years ago, and Banning, whose real name is Mimi Gillespie, has moved to a walled LA estate and published not another word. Johnson's debut novel revolves around a literary recluse named M.M.
A comic novel about a prickly writer, her unusual young son, and their beleaguered caretaker, set in the Hollywood Hills.
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