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The Gulf : a Novel by Belle Boggs is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>A hilarious send-up of writing workshops, for-profit education, and the gulf between believers and nonbelievers</b><br><br>Marianne is in a slump: barely able to support herself by teaching, not making progress on her poetry, about to lose her Brooklyn apartment. When her novelist ex-fiancé, Eric, and his venture capitalist brother, Mark, offer her a job directing a low-residency school for Christian writers at a motel they’ve inherited on Florida’s Gulf Coast, she can’t come up with a reason to say no. <br><br>The Genesis Inspirational Writing Ranch is born, and liberal, atheist Marianne is soon knee-deep in applications from writers whose political and religious beliefs she has always opposed but whose money she’s glad to take. Janine is a schoolteacher whose heartfelt poems explore the final days of Terri Schiavo’s life. Davonte is a former R&B superstar who hopes to reboot his career with a bestselling tale of excess and redemption. Lorraine and Tom, eccentric writers in need of paying jobs, join the Ranch as instructors. <br><br>Mark finds an investor in God’s Word God’s World, a business that develops for-profit schools for the Christian market, but the conditions that
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- Author
- Belle Boggs
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555978822
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5 (62 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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