My Search for Warren Harding

Author: Plunket, Robert

Of specific Gay interest

Published on 6 February 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 304 pages
197 x 129 x 20 | 226g

One of the most original comic novels of the past half century The New YorkerWill leave you so giddy youll go and kick sand in somebodys face Houston PostPerfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, this is Robert Plunkets comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980s 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 theres no depth to which he wont stoop, no preposterous scheme he wont undertake, to get at them.

With an Introduction by Danzy SennaThe 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 TimeNothing this funny is being written today Jacobin