Description
'One of the most original comic novels of the past half century' The New Yorker 'Will leave you so giddy you'll go and kick sand in somebody's face' Houston Post Perfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces , this is Robert Plunket's comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980's LA Eliot Weiner - snob, shameless opportunist, Morris dancing-obsessive - is on a mission. He has got wind of a trunk of bawdy love letters by Warren Harding, 'the shallowest President in history', now guarded by his octogenarian mistress on her crumbling Hollywood Hills estate. They could reignite his failing academic career - and there's no depth to which he won't stoop, no preposterous scheme he won't undertake, to get at them. With an Introduction by Danzy Senna 'The author pulled me in so deftly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system' Frank Conroy, Washington Post 'A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx' Time 'Nothing this funny is being written today' Jacobin
| EAN: | 9780241707999 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 06.02.2025 |
| Autoren: | Plunket, Robert |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 304 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Classics |
| Keyword: | ricky gervais; mark twain; sue townsend; sunset boulevard; hollywood; three men in a boat; gk chesterton; a confederacy of dunces; john kennedy toole; comedy; billy connolly; curb your enthusiasm; larry david; seinfeld; kingsley amis; lucky jim; jake's thing; the old devils; oscar wilde; the napoleon of notting hill; henry james; the aspern papers; gay literature |
| Fachschema: | Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Schwul / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Klassische Belletristik~Belletristik: Humor~Klassische Lyrik, Lyrik bis 1900 |
| Interesse Alter: | Bezug zu Schwulen |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin Classics |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 129 mm |