# The Plot - Hardcover

by **Jean Hanff Korelitz** (Author)

**\*\* _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER! \*\*** **The _Tonight Show_ Summer Reads Winner \*\*** **A _New York Times_ Notable Book of 2021 \*\***  
**Insanely readable.** **\--Stephen King**

**Hailed as breathtakingly suspenseful, Jean Hanff Korelitz's _The Plot_ is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.**

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written--let alone published--anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.

Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that--a story that absolutely needs to be told.

In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: _You are a thief_, it says.

As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his "sure thing" of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?

### Author Biography

**Jean Hanff Korelitz** is the author of the novels _You Should Have Known_ (which aired on HBO in October 2020 as _The Undoing_, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland), _Admission_ (adapted as a film in 2013 starring Tina Fey), _The Devil and Webster_, _The White Rose_, _The_ _Sabbathday River_ and _A Jury of Her Peers_, as well as _Interference Powder_, a novel for children. Her company BOOKTHEWRITER hosts Pop-Up Book Groups in which small groups of readers discuss new books with their authors. She lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldo

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1.25 x 9.7 x 6.5 IN

**Publication Date:** May 11, 2021

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