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The Book of Lies
Paperback
General GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9781951092320
Publisher: Requeered Tales
Published: Oct 13 2020
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
With biting wit and a lush sense of place and character, Felice Picano's daring novel is at once a stylish mystery, a comical roman-Ã -clef, and a wicked send-up of the new Ivory Tower.
First published to acclaim in 1998, this new edition for 2020 features a foreword by David Bergman (The Violet Hour).
The Book of Lies is funny, dark, sexy, shocking, and yes, smart. Set in the near future ('decades after Stonewall'), the novel tells of a young scholar trying to make his academic bones on the literary bodies of the 'Purple Circle'. Picano skewers the pedagogically pretentious with ease and wit. A wonderful novel, with some of Picano's best writing. - Bay Area Reporter
Picano treats his nonpulpy subject matter - grieving, the book business, the teaching business - in a pulpy way, and the results are surprisingly entertaining. - The New York Times Book Review
Based on Picano's involvement with the Violet Quill Club (which included Edmund White and Andrew Holleran), this is an absorbing Henry James-style comedy of manners about how even when some writers find their way out of the closet, others still get left behind. - The Mail on Sunday
Felice Picano's new novel, his 19th book, is a story rich with history - a history that Picano himself was part of and helped shape ... - The Washington Blade
Leave it to Felice Picano to add a walloping dose of melodrama and intrigue to a tale already redrawing genre boundaries ... What Picano does is take an academic mystery (subject matter that might have proved tedious or solipsistic in lesser hands) and morphs it into something new - a page-turning, often campy, occasionally serious critique of academia and historical truth, literary celebrity, and the imminent future of America. - Philadelphia Tribune
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