My Search for Warren Harding (eBook)

Robert Plunket (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80206-667-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 PostPerfect 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2025
• Vorwort: Danzy Senna
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-80206-667-5 / 1802066675
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80206-667-8 / 9781802066678