The Nenoquich Bean Henry
A tale of sexual obsession and unintended consequences, told with "Nabokovian cunning . . . steely concentration and understated emotional force." (Chicago Tribune)One day, eavesdropping on a phone…
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A tale of sexual obsession and unintended consequences, told with "Nabokovian cunning . . . steely concentration and understated emotional force." (Chicago Tribune)One day, eavesdropping on a phone call, Harold Raab, a writer with nothing to write, hears his roommate refer intriguingly to a woman Harold has never met. Curiosity leads to obsession and to an affair with the married Charlotte Cobin, all of which Harold faithfully records in the notebook that becomes his deeper obsession. As the relationship with Charlotte complicates and darkens, Harold's poisons emerge. He's discovered a subject he can write about, but now reveals himself as someone whose intelligence, wit, and sexual delirium mask a terror of human connection. Adrift in the ruins of 1970s Berkeley, he is--like the dark hero of a nineteenth century romance--disastrously unprepared for actual love, and
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