It is a comic novel about sexual obsession.
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Manus ( Mott the Hoople ) fumbles this macho farce centering around a not-so-nice Jewish boy from the Bronx who uses Yiddish words and quotes Roman philosophers with equal ease. Lenny Samuels resides on a small Greek island, enjoying an "open" second marriage until his wife leaves him to become a porn goddess, making movies for a billionaire artist named Randi Korball (an obviously caricatured Andy Warhol). Lenny returns to New York and grotesqueries follow: Lenny kills his diabetic father to put him out of his misery; Lenny's first wife discovers a handwritten autobiography by a black junkie and becomes both his editor and his lover, while Lenny is hired to do publicity; the book is an instant success, excerpted in Life magazine and adapted for a television documentary. Manus has an excellent eye for descriptive detail, but conveys puerile attitudes about women and particularly about sex: "There's no breaking the way of things, which for a Jewish boy is to marry a good, sensible Jewish girl for the first wife, then a wild blonde shikseh for the second."
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"It's a mournful, witty, elegiac and monstrously funny novel -- as if, in the last decline of the 20th century, Rabelais had written in America" -- Ben Maddow in the LA Herald Examiner
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Back to the Bronx, the fabled streets of home. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Randi Korball, Cornelius Johnson, Fiona Smith, Mother Superior, Marcus Aurelius, Big Brother, Cherry Street, Little Italy, Los Angeles, Pelham Parkway, Charles Young Park, Daily News, Greenwich Village, Jesus Christ, Len Samuels, Mae West, Pussycat Theater, Rhoda Karp, Riverside Drive, Stink Creek, Village Voice New!
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Back to the Bronx, the fabled streets of home. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sex film Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Randi Korball, Cornelius Johnson, Fiona Smith, Mother Superior, Marcus Aurelius, Big Brother, Cherry Street, Little Italy, Los Angeles, Pelham Parkway, Charles Young Park, Daily News, Greenwich Village, Jesus Christ, Len Samuels, Mae West, Pussycat Theater, Rhoda Karp, Riverside Drive, Stink Creek, Village Voice New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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books:
- Mott the Hoople by Willard Manus in Front Matter
- Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown on page 124
- Fighting Men by Willard Manus in Front Matter
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