My Search for Warren Harding

One of the most original comic novels of the past half century The New Yorker Will leave you so giddy youll go and kick sand in somebodys face Houston Post Perfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, this is Robert Plunkets comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980s 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 theres no depth to which he wont stoop, no preposterous scheme he wont 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