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Backstory

by William Michael Ried · 2021

ISBN: 1949085384 9781949085389

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 617

<p>Ansel Tone, a celebrity author on revisionist history and propaganda professor at Columbia, drives fast cars and runs with glamorous women. He’s up for tenure and writing a new book when he attends a Trinity College reunion. His ex-classmate Charlie announces he will base his next novel on meeting his wife during their year in the Dublin, on a campus cloaked in four-hundred-years of student pranks and mayhem. Ansel may accept that Charlie married the beautiful Tess, Ansel’s girlfriend that year, but how Charlie remembers the story threatens to upend Ansel’s life. He can’t let that happen and so sets out to revise history.</p><p>In New York City and the Hudson River Valley, Charlie digs into the past, Ansel struggles to rewrite his own past, and Tess wonders if she wound up with the right guy. Their unwitting ex-classmates will share the repercussions.</p>