Alexander Theroux's long-awaited return to the novel and, as in all of his works, his maximalist prose style and searching intellect are its chief attractions. Eugene Eyestones, a sex columnist for a Boston magazine, becomes enmeshed in the life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic, who exemplifies all that Eugene considers wrong with contemporary America (of which the publishing profession serves as a microcosm). Eugene fights against the rising tide of American stupidity, but Laura and the colourful cast threaten to pull him under...
Author Biography
Alexander Theroux is an award-winning novelist, poet, and teacher whose prose works include Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual, Estonia, and the two artist monographs The Strange Case of Edward Gorey and The Enigma of Al Capp. His novel Darconville's Cat was chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 greatest post-war novels. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and children.
