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Amazon.com (June 24, 2014): Ralph Crawford may be a talented short-story writer -- one of the best in the Bay Area, in America, in the 1970s; hell, in the whole English-speaking, late-middle-twentieth century -- but off the page he's only human. ... his (similarly human) buddy, Jim Stark -- a novelist burning with ambition, promise, and humiliation.... the lives....are changed....