16 bananas : a novel

"A comedy featuring Sheldon Green, a budding screenwriter. He moves from Cleveland to Los Angeles and gets a job in a copy center while awaiting his break. It comes when he meets a producer looking for ideas. Green delivers "Mitch and Me," about a family who think a monkey is the foreign exchange student they have been awaiting. The script is accepted and Green's career as a screenwriter is launched. A send-up of Hollywood by the author of Same Bed, Different Dreams."