Book description
Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men,
desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who
surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse.
This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton
Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece
sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance
he's demanding from his publisher. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit
of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten down by jealous
inferiors. But even as Reece struggles to 'know' his subject, his own
rapidly unravelling life keeps finding unexpected ways to intrude.
With a deft comic touch and an astounding narrative style, Steven
Carter's novel creates a picture of a Hughes
who might have been, a biographer who can't
separate his subject from his own visions of grandeur, and a public
that demands its heroes be larger than life - if only so they can be
more easily torn down.
A graduate of the Center for Writers at the University of Southern
Mississippi, Steven Carter currently teaches at Georgetown College in
Kentucky.
I Was Howard Hughes
is his first novel.
