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In Wilfrid Sheed's satirical metafiction, The Boys of Winter, the middle-aged, divorced editor Jonathon Oglethorpe resides in the Hamptons and navigates a complex web of literary rivalry and friendship with other writers. As Jonathon writes his own novel that mirrors their lives, tensions rise when he discovers another author's similar work-in-progress. Depictions of violence and self-destruction are present.