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Here comes Lucien Springer. Age: forty-seven. Still handsome though muchly vodka'd novelist, currently abashed by acute creative dysfunction. Sole preoccupation amid these artistic doldrums: pursuit of fair women. Springer is a randy incorrigible who is guided by only one inflexible precept: no protracted affairs. And thus he has slyly sustained eighteen years of marriage
Enter, then, Jessica Cornford. Age: almost half of Lucien's. Lush of body and roguish of...
About the Author
David Markson's novel Wittgenstein's Mistress was acclaimed by David Foster Wallace as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country." His other novels, including Reader's Block, Springer's Progress, and Vanishing Point, have expanded this high reputation. His novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee was made into the film Dirty Dingus Magee, which starred Frank Sinatra, and he is also the author of three crime...
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“Immensely endearing . . . And how nice to hear two people actually laugh during sex.” (Ms.)
“As amoral and exuberant as if it were told by Dylan Thomas to the Wife of Bath . . . fills one with as much awe as laughter.” (Douglas Day)
“Funny and intelligent and, to say the very least, sexy.” (Mademoiselle)
“Marvelously bawdy . . . but what stands out finally is the finely honed...
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- PublisherHolt Rrinehart Winston
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0030203414
- ISBN 13 9780030203411
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages234
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