Secret Rendezvous

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ISBN 10: 0394503724 / ISBN 13: 9780394503721

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979

About this Item

179 pp. Tan and black boards with gold embossed title on cover and spine; minor fading along the top edges of the boards. Black pictorial jacket with colorful illustration has some wear along the bottom and fading along the top inside jacket flaps. "In this brilliant, nightmarish, savagely funny novel. we follow the bereft and astonished husband in his desperate search for the vanished woman, as he pursues the mysterious ambulance to a vast underground hospital, as he struggles to find his bearings in a system so complex that patients have to hire agents to help them deal with it" Size: Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Secret Rendezvous
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394503724
• ISBN 13: 9780394503721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

As a jump-shoe salesman searches for his wife in a sinister underground hospital, his fascination with the hospital's strange inhabitants, including a girl whose bones are gradually liquefying, causes him to barely notice his wife's unspeakable circumstances

From the Inside Flap

From the acclaimed author of "Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous," the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that she is perfectly healthy, her bewildered husband realizes that things are not as they should be. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home to a network of constant surveillance, outlandish sex experiments, and an array of very odd and even violent characters. Within a few days, though no closer to finding his wife, the unnamed narrator finds himself appointed the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he's a horse. With its nightmarish vision of modern medicine and modern life, Secret Rendezvous is another masterpiece from Japan's most gifted and original writer of serious fiction.