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In the course of trying to finance a film--by means of bullying, begging, impersonation, and assorted crazy schemes--Simon Lynxx loses all five of his senses, one by one
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D. (David) Keith Mano graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University in 1963. He spent the next year as a Kellett Fellow in English at Clare College, Cambridge, and toured as an actor with the Marlowe Society of England. He came back to America in 1964 as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Columbia. He appeared in several off-Broadway productions and toured with the National Shakespeare Company. Mano married Jo Margaret McArthur on 3 August 1964, and they had two children before their divorce in 1979. Mano left the Episcopal church for the Eastern Orthodox in 1979. He died in 2016 in New York City.
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This Joycean romp follows protagonist Simon Lynxx, who during the course of the story loses his senses one by one. LJ's reviewer dubbed the book "an unpredictably tough and funny affirmation of life as it comes" (LJ 5/15/82).
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0385041284
- ISBN 13 9780385041287
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages582
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Book Description Hardback. Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s. Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing Jesus 2001, what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather), descendent of a wealthy and prestigious New York family whose wealth and prestige are in sharp decline, racist and anti-Semite (though Simon dislikes all ethnic groups equally), possessor of never-satisfied appetites (food, women, drink, but most of all, money and more money), and the fastest talker since Falstaff, Simon is on a quest that goes backwards. Through the course of this 600-page novel, Simon loses, one by one, all of his senses, ending in a state of complete debilitation through which he is being made ready for eternity and possible salvation. 1982, First edition. A near fine copy only marked by a bookseller sticker on the front pastedown and very light age tanning to the fore edge. The contents are fine and crisp. The d/w is near fine with only light edge rubbing and is now in a protective cover. Scans available if required. Seller Inventory # 15235082
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Doubleday, 1982. First Edition. Fine copy in a dust wrapper that is not price clipped, but is rubbed at the edges. Seller Inventory # 284203
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. US1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING.NEAR FIEN HARDBACK IN NEAR FIEN DUSTWRAPPER.THE AUTHORS MASTERPIECE AND STILL LARGELY UNKNOWN.THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FEP "FOR JEFF BERGMAN-MANY HANKS FOR YOUR HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT.BEST WISHES-D.KEITH MANO X" EXTREMELY SCARCE.24. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # SHHHEELPPPFFF
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