`One of the most original comic novels of the past half century' The New Yorker`Will leave you so giddy you'll go and kick sand in somebody's face' Houston PostPerfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, this is Robert Plunket's comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980's LA Eliot Weiner - snob, shameless opportunist, Morris dancing-obsessive - is on a mission. He has got wind of a trunk of bawdy love letters by Warren Harding, `the shallowest President in history', now guarded by his octogenarian mistress on her crumbling Hollywood Hills estate. They could reignite his failing academic career - and there's no depth to which he won't stoop, no preposterous scheme he won't undertake, to get at them. With an Introduction by Danzy Senna`The author pulled me in so deftly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system' Frank Conroy, Washington Post `A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx' Time`Nothing this funny is being written today' Jacobin
