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My Search for Warren Harding
Reader Score
77%
77% of readers
recommend this book
Set against the fading light of early-1980s Hollywood, our deeply flawed, bigoted, closeted antihero Elliot Weiner is a historian--Harvard BA, Columbia PhD--with a passion for Morris dancing and Warren Harding, "the shallowest President in history." After Weiner receives a research grant to write a book on the tumultuous life of Harding, he gets wind of a trunkful of the 29th president's bawdy billets-doux that is rumored to be fiercely guarded by his ancient mistress Rebekah Kinney on her declining Hollywood Hills estate. Nothing and no one can stand in the way of Weiner getting his paws on the treasure, and along the way, as the words dance across the page, a hysterical, guffaw-inducing punchline around every corner, Weiner reaches new lows of humiliation and self-delusion.
Book Details
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Jun 6th, 2023
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.99in - 5.33in - 0.87in - 0.74lb
- EAN: 9780811234696
- Categories: • Humorous - General• Literary• City Life
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About the Author
Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas in 1945, and raised in Havana and Mexico City. After an unsuccessful stint as an actor in New York, he moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he became Mr. Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He is now retired and has "found peace and contentment at a lovely trailer park in Florida." New Directions also publishes his novel My Search for Warren Harding, described by Danzy Senna in the foreword as "one of the best, and most invigorating books I'd read in years, and certainly the funniest."
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What people are saying
"It’s rare these days to read a novel that feels like it is about something, but Plunket’s has a pleasing combination of utter obscurity and the heft of history…The book was funny and scathing, but also extremely informed and informative."
"A madcap account... full of deception, racial slurs, bad sex, assorted felonies... Those of us just beginning to read funny fiction seriously in the ’80s might have missed him the first time around. What does it mean that, forty years on, [Plunket] stands as tall as the greats?"
Praise for this book
What people are saying
"It’s rare these days to read a novel that feels like it is about something, but Plunket’s has a pleasing combination of utter obscurity and the heft of history…The book was funny and scathing, but also extremely informed and informative."
"A madcap account... full of deception, racial slurs, bad sex, assorted felonies... Those of us just beginning to read funny fiction seriously in the ’80s might have missed him the first time around. What does it mean that, forty years on, [Plunket] stands as tall as the greats?"