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A Man In the Way

AuthorF Scott Fitzgerald

NarratorKerry Shale

Duration9m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Classics

PublisherCSA Word

VersionUnabridged

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Pat Hobby is an ageing film writer who used to do well, but these days is low on ideas that pay, until he stumbles across someone else's flash of inspiration.

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