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One of this author’s characters spends decades living in an underground burrow of tunnels of his own creation, which catches fire one night when struck by lightning. In a novel by this author, Jack offers to clean his girlfriend’s apartment as an excuse to steal the manuscripts she’s been preparing for a blackmailer in a pinstripe suit. (-5[2])In a novel-within-a-novel by this author, the protagonist accidentally kills his sick wife by forcing her to undergo chemically induced convulsion therapy in Switzerland. This novelist created the (*) Swedish immigrant Håkan Söderström (10[1])(“HO-kahn SUH-der-strum”), who searches for his brother in the American West. In a novel by this author, (10[1])Ida Partenza is hired to ghostwrite the autobiography of the financier Andrew Bevel, who (10[1])made a fortune shorting the stock market in the (10[1])1929 crash. For 10 points, name (-5[1])this Argentinian-American (10[1])author of In the Distance (10[1])who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Trust. ■END■ (10[1]0[10])

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