The Life and Times of an Involuntary Genius

Hardcover in Near-Fine condition in a near-fine dust jacket, 8vo. Yellow cloth with spine titles in green, deckled fore-edge, blue end-papers. Top edge slightly dusty, light soiling and darkening of board edges, dust jacket not price clipped ($7.95). Inscribed and dated to a New York bookseller. An attractive clean copy. Bookseller accession no.: RT201. From Kirkus Reviews, "The notion of ""genius"" here is borrowed from Salvador Dali's Diary of a Genius. Nonetheless, Andrei Codrescu writes very well--even if English is approximately his seventh language (after German, Hungarian, Rumanian, Russian, French and chicken language). His Life and Times reads like a Kunstlerroman, tracing this sensitive artist's brushes with the evils of Authority--and flaunting that streak of bold individualism by which you know that this is no ordinary juvenile troublemaker.".