The Bachelor Av Andrew Palmer

<b><b>A “witty and wise” (<i>People</i>) debut novel about love and commitment, celebrity and obsession, poetry and reality TV.</b></b><br><br><b>“Palmer’s novel wryly tracks an earnest interrogation of art and selfhood.”—<i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br>Reeling from a breakup with his almost fiancée, the narrator of Andrew Palmer’s debut novel returns to his hometown in Iowa to house-sit for a family friend. There, a chance flick of the TV remote and a new correspondence with an old friend plunge him into unlikely twin obsessions: the reality show <i>The Bachelor</i> and the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet John Berryman. As his heart begins to mend, his fascination with each deepens, and somewhere along the way, representations of reality become harder and harder to distinguish from real life. Soon he finds himself corresponding with multiple love interests, participating in an ill-considered group outing, and trying to puzzle through