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Seattle Times -- Friday, October 29, 2004 --
"Tearjerker": kooky, quirky, thoroughly captivating -- By
Michael Upchurch -- It's perfectly accurate to call Daniel Hayes'
"Tearjerker" (Graywolf, 211 pp., $15) a creepily clever first novel.
But it may be more helpful to describe it as a sly little Möbius
strip of self-reflective narrative invention. What we have here is a
novel (or two) within a novel, and a premise so nervy that you have
to admire the editor who acquired the book for Graywolf. That
premise: A frustrated writer, discouraged by his failure to get
published but eager to learn more about the book business, kidnaps
an editor...
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Rake Magazine -- October 2004 -- Tearjerker by
Daniel Hayes -- Writers familiar with the slow burn caused by
repeated rejection will be delighted with this new novel, centering
on just that. Evan Ulmer, one of many writers whose creative efforts
go unappreciated reaches his breaking point and takes matters into
his own hands. After kidnapping an accomplished book editor and
setting him up in a basement cage equipped with a porta potty, Ulmer
muses. " Was abduction a difficult and gutsy endeavor or, instead,
the predictable last resort..."
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Publishers Weekly - October 11, 2004 --
Tearjerker, Hayes, Daniel -- ISBN: 1555974090, Graywolf -- Press,
Paperback, $15.00 (184p) -- Published 2004-10 -- The passions
that animate writers take zany shape in this playful metafictional
debut novel by the author of the short story collection Kissing You.
Evan Ulmer, an anxious writer desperate for literary success, is
sick of having his stories rejected by busy publishers. Growing
impatient, he abducts Robert Partnow, an esteemed book editor he
read about in Publisher's Weekly , and locks him up in a basement
designed for maximum comfort. There, Partnow is forced to listen to
the many failures of the struggling writer, and captor and captive
gradually develop a wary relationship based on honesty and
loneliness...
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