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About the Book

Fred Beauford has been called the thinking man's novelist. He has been on a thoughtful hunt for the true meaning of what it means to be an American in his previous books. In The Bad Luck Novel, he is true to form in this interesting, fast moving, provocative urban fable.

After losing his friends, his girlfriend, his job, his fancy Manhattan apartment--all because of a novel he wrote called The Woman's Man, the unnamed narrator begins a dizzying descent into painful illness, hunger, grinding poverty, and a fear filled future.

Yet, he meets new friends, and discover deep truths about some of his old friends, as one of his friends, the mysterious Alonzo The Intellectual, is the major suspect in the bombing to the statue of Teddy Roosevelt in front of the Museum of Natural History, which blew the foot off of the indian carrying Teddy's gun.

The FBI comes calling, his friends are in disbelief that he could know such a person, and the narrator is forced to confront just what is the meaning of the word "friend" in modern-day urban American where everything aspect of one's existence seems to be based on race and money.

Short Bio

Fred Beauford is the author of four books, including The Womanizer, a novel; The Rejected American, a collection of highly acclaimed essays. He founded Black Creation magazine, Neworld: The Multi-Cultural Magazine of the Arts, and served for eight years as the editor of The Crisis Magazine. He has taught at The University of Southern California, UC Berkeley, N.Y.U and SUNY Old Westbury.

He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.l

About the Author

Fred Beauford is the author of four books, including The Womanizer, a novel; The Rejected American, a collection of highly acclaimed essays. He founded Black Creation magazine, Neworld: The Multi-Cultural Magazine of the Arts, and served for eight years as the editor of The Crisis Magazine. He has taught at The University of Southern California, UC Berkeley, N.Y.U and SUNY Old Westbury. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.l