My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket (English) Paperback Book

Description: My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket, Danzy Senna An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece—an American classic that will "leave you so giddy youll go and kick sand in somebodys face" (The Houston Post) FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunkets glittering story of literary sleuthing and deceit, first appeared in 1983, it garnered immediate and far-reaching acclaim. Frank Conroy at the Washington Post exclaimed, "The author pulled me in so deftly, moved me up an escalating scale of sly hyperbole so cunningly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system"; Florence King at the Dallas Times Herald, "The most exciting event in American letters for a very long time: a momentous book." More recently, though long out of print, it was canonized in The Guardians "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read," ranked by the Washington Post as one of the top five books of "great American comic fiction," and praised by Michael Leone in the Los Angeles Review of Books as "a classic picaresque novel in the tradition of Cervantes." Set against the fading light of early-1980s Hollywood, our deeply flawed, bigoted, closeted antihero Elliot Weiner is a historian-Harvard BA, Columbia PhD-with a passion for Morris dancing and Warren Harding, "the shallowest President in history." After Weiner receives a research grant to write a book on the tumultuous life of Harding, he gets wind of a trunkful of the 29th presidents bawdy billets-doux that is rumored to be fiercely guarded by his ancient mistress Rebekah Kinney on her declining Hollywood Hills estate. Nothing and no one can stand in the way of Weiner getting his paws on the treasure, and along the way, as the words dance across the page, a hysterical, guffaw-inducing punchline around every corner, Weiner reaches new lows of humiliation and self-delusion. Author Biography Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas in 1945, and raised in Havana and Mexico City. After an unsuccessful stint as an actor in New York, he moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he became Mr. Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He is now retired and has "found peace and contentment at a lovely trailer park in Florida." New Directions also publishes his novel My Search for Warren Harding, described by Danzy Senna in the foreword as "one of the best, and most invigorating books Id read in years, and certainly the funniest."Danzy Senna is the author of five critically acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction, including New People, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, and Caucasia. Review "A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx." -- Time Review Quote "A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx." Details ISBN081123469X Author Danzy Senna Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 081123469X ISBN-13 9780811234696 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-07-07 UK Release Date 2023-07-07 Pages 256 Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-07-07 NZ Release Date 2023-07-07 US Release Date 2023-07-07 Audience General DEWEY 813.54 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142267853;

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