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‘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

 
 

Review

One of the most original comic novels of the past half century.--Casey Cep "The New Yorker"

It's rare for a long-forgotten writer into his eighth decade to get rediscovered. What's even more unusual about Plunket, and his unlikely return, is how stealthily influential his fiction has been over the decades.--Alexandra Alter "The New York Times"

A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx.-- "Time"

A savagely comic take on the Gay Best Friend as a malicious manipulator.--Mark Harris "The New York Times"

Plunket's confessional tone, his absurdity, and his lack of boundary between himself and his characters is a forebear too to the kind of humor that flourishes on social media, group chats, and podcasts...nothing this funny is being written today.--Zsofia Paulikovics "Jacobin" (6/15/2023 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

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 f

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  • ISBN: 9780241707999
  • Author: Robert Plunket
  • Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Pages: 295
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‘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

 
 

Review

One of the most original comic novels of the past half century.--Casey Cep "The New Yorker"

It's rare for a long-forgotten writer into his eighth decade to get rediscovered. What's even more unusual about Plunket, and his unlikely return, is how stealthily influential his fiction has been over the decades.--Alexandra Alter "The New York Times"

A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx.-- "Time"

A savagely comic take on the Gay Best Friend as a malicious manipulator.--Mark Harris "The New York Times"

Plunket's confessional tone, his absurdity, and his lack of boundary between himself and his characters is a forebear too to the kind of humor that flourishes on social media, group chats, and podcasts...nothing this funny is being written today.--Zsofia Paulikovics "Jacobin" (6/15/2023 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

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 f

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