Everything You Know
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller, published by Knopf on January 4, 2000, is a psychological fiction novel comprising 224 pages. The story follows Willy Muller, a disillusioned writer of celebrity biographies who grapples with his tumultuous past, including the murder of his wife and the recent suicide of his daughter, Sadie. While recovering from a heart attack at a Mexican resort, Willy is accompanied by his girlfriend Penny and friend Harry, but instead of focusing on his work, he becomes absorbed in Sadie’s diaries, prompting reflections on his chaotic family history.
Readers will encounter a narrative that intertwines themes of love, loathing, and the complexities of familial relationships. Set against backdrops of Mexico, Los Angeles, and London, the novel explores Willy’s internal struggles and his confrontation with the consequences of his past actions. Everything You Know delves into the darker aspects of human connections, presenting a blend of humor and poignancy as Willy navigates his life’s challenges.
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Willy Muller is an embittered writer of celebrity bios and an equal-opportunity misanthropist. At the age of fifty, he has survived imprisonment for murdering his wife, years of venomous hate mail from the British public and, most recently, the suicide of his daughter Sadie. Willy needs a rest, but he’s not going to get it. While recuperating from a heart attack in a Mexican resort with his magnificently silly girlfriend Penny and his vodka-drenched friend Harry, Willy finds himself drawn into a troubling confrontation with his past. He should be working on the screen adaptation of his infamous hack memoir, To Have and to Hold, but instead he becomes engrossed in Sadie’s tragic diaries. Reluctantly, he considers his chaotic family history and the notion that “only when you die do you run out of chances to be good.”
Set in Mexico, Los Angeles and London, Everything You Know is a story of love and loathing, sex and death, and filial relations gone horribly awry. Acidly funny and deeply affecting, it marks the debut of a brilliant and immensely stylish young writer.
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