Reader Score
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77% of readers
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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."
"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?"