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... shepherded by another aspiring writer who realized her failure and became a literary agent.

Unable to repeat the success of his first book, the writer exists in limbo of purposelessness and diminishing royalties...

... while the agent grows to resent him and blame him for her precarious position at the literary agency.

The writer takes a trip to Korea, while the agent, desperate for a best-seller, raises the question...

...wouldn't it be better for everyone if he just killed himself?