The Comedy Writer (42 page)

grew up in Rhode Island and graduated from Providence College and Columbia University. He cowrote and codirected
Dumb and Dumber
and
There's Something About Mary
and codirected
Kingpin.

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The Comedy Writer.
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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has cataloged the previous edition as:

Farrelly, Peter.

The comedy writer: a novel / Peter Farrelly.

p. cm.

I. Tide.

PS3556.A7725C66 1998

813'.54—dc21

97-40314 cip

eISBN: 978-0-307-51799-9

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