Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr.

The protagonist of Ron Currie, Jr.'s new novel has a problem - or rather, several of them. He's a writer whose latest book was destroyed in a fire. He's been in love with the same woman since grade school, a woman whose beauty and allure is matched only by her talent for eluding him. Worst of all, he's an amalgam of fact and fiction from Ron Currie's own life. When Currie the character exiles himself to write a new book about the woman he loves, he eventually decides to fake his death, which turns out to be the best career move he's ever made. But Currie learns the one thing the world will not forgive is having been told a deeply satisfying lie.