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Originally Posted by Hitch
Oookay, so it's a bit--not a lot, but a bit--like that Travolta movie with the baby, voiced by Bruce Willis? Is that the idea here, except...I guess the Baby (two?) is meant to be grooming some writer? Is that right?
At that point...I guess it pretty much qualifies as LitFic, which means you can put any damned cover on it you wish. LitFic is famous for meaningless and non-indicative covers, after all!
Hitch
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I"m going to have to disagree that it is even a bit like that Travolta movie; in fact, this never occurred to me. Yes, the baby in that film is an obnoxious know-it-all brat, and the film is overly cute. But that's about all that I gathered from the film.
What it
IS like is the Steven Millhauser novel that I mentioned some time ago in one of my posts, My novella has its emphasis on a twisted aspect that's driving the first person protagonist as he recounts his difficulty in preparing Johnny (they are both the same age) toward recognition as the 'Greatest Horror Writer of All Time'. Additionally, there's a certain meta-fictional play going on toward the end of the novella. The whole thing is slightly over 100 pages.