On a windy September day, twenty-five-year-old Slater Brown stands in the back of a bicycle taxi hurtling the wrong way down the busiest street in San Francisco. Slater has come to “see the elephant,” to stake his claim to fame and become the greatest writer ever. But this city of gleaming water and infinite magic has other plans in this astounding first novel — at once a love story, a feast of literary imagination, and a dazzlingly original tale of passion, ambition, and genius in all their guises.
Going to See the Elephant
Rodes Fishburne reads a passage from Going to See the Elephant, the story of Slater Brown and his attempt to become the greatest writer ever.
