- Paperback: 253 pages
- Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education; 1st McGraw-Hill Pbk. Ed edition (1 Dec 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0070166501
- ISBN-13: 978-0070166509
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,908,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A masterpiece of literate lunacy, lascivousness, and love. Earl Peckham's highbrow novel has sold only three copies, and he had failed with the ladies. D riven by frustration, he sets out across America to find his three readers. When, in Omaha, he meets Poppy, the author of his publisher's bestselling "trash" novel, an affair of sublime incongruity ensues. DeVries is a veteran New Yorker editor.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not the best of DeVries, but that's better than most
6 Feb 2000
Format:Paperback
Peckham is happily situated at the Garden of Disfunction. Hello! He meets the widow of the founder of the looney bin and makes her his own - until a greater foe approaches. Who's crazier? That's always been DeVries's forte, piano, mezzo, and other operatic jokes. But seriously folks, the man runs rings around the English language, dropping puns anywhere he thinks you're not looking. Watch your step.
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28 Mar 2004
Format:Paperback
Earl Peckham failed to score with lissome Bonnie Aspenwall or her statuesque aunt, Mrs. DelBelly. Gnawed by frustration, driven by curiosity, he sets out for America's heartland to find the three readers who actually bought his novel (he only sold 3 copies of it). It is an additional burr under his saddle that his laggard publisher also purveys bestselling "trash" by first novelist Poppy McCloud. But when Earl meets Poppy autographing books in Omaha, the die is cast...for an affair of such sublime incongruity and misguided patronizing, as Peckham plsys Svengali to Poppy's Trilby, that neither love and literature will ever be the same.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not the best of DeVries, but that's better than most
6 Feb 2000
Format:Paperback
Peckham is happily situated at the Garden of Disfunction. Hello! He meets the widow of the founder of the looney bin and makes her his own - until a greater foe approaches. Who's crazier? That's always been DeVries's forte, piano, mezzo, and other operatic jokes. But seriously folks, the man runs rings around the English language, dropping puns anywhere he thinks you're not looking.
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