Who is A. N. Dyer? For fans of The Art of Fielding and Wonder Boys - this is the panoramic, deeply affecting story of an iconic novelist and the heartbreaking truths that fiction can hide. A.N. Dyer is America s most mysterious literary recluse, his cult book Ampersand treasured by angst-ridden adolescents everywhere. But seventeen years ago, the unexpected arrival of a new baby Dyer wrecked the writer s relationship with his wife and their own teenage sons. David Gilbert s astonishing novel is an ingenious, death-defying leap into the life of a giant of literature and a father with one final revelation for his boys - or is it actually just one last fiction?