THE OTHER HAND CLAPPING

Book 12 of 12: The Vassi Collection

Vassi, Marco

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ISBN 10: 0932966780 ISBN 13: 9780932966780

Published by The Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, New York, 1987

Language: English

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Octavo, 155 pages; Very Good/Very Good; spine teal with white and black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut with price sticker covering, very mild shelfwear; small offsetting from price sticker to first two free endpapers. Shelved under Display Table #2. 1365795. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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Title

THE OTHER HAND CLAPPING

Publisher

The Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, New York

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0932966780

ISBN 13

9780932966780

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Hardcover

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First Edition, First Printing.

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Larry, a student of Zen who is dealing with a difficult phase of enlightenment, is suddenly confronted with his wife's possible infidelity

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For no discernible reason, except possibly the banal search for "real identity," bookstore owner Larry, the 37-year-old protagonist here, enters the life of Zen meditation with a vengeance. Obsessed by the Zen mystique, he virtually abandons all else, including his ravishing wife Eleanor, an aspiring actress. He becomes "quietistic in bed," moving from "shared eroticism into solitary meditation," and from that inert state into absolute celibacy, a condition Eleanor doesn't much care for. Suddenly evidence of her infidelity mounts and along with it Larry's jealousy. But wait: Is it fact or Zen hallucination? Does Eleanor actually leave Larry and move in with a rich mobster who can advance her theatrical career, or is it all a ruse, an exercise in theater? What was meant as enigma and mystery soon dissolves into trickery, a sequence of puzzles within puzzles. Some signs suggest that Larry will kick Zen and return to sanity and the Scrabble games of the couple's good old days. Vassi has a considerable underground reputation as an "erotic" writer established over a dozen such novels. In this one, an attempted departure from that mode, his control of a tautly told tale slips badly and ends in sheer silliness.
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