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Passionate Spectator
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780312424848
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jul 1 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
In Passionate Spectator, memoirist Peter Leroy and his wife Albertine are living by the skin of their teeth in Manhattan. Casting about for a source of income, Peter purchases a book from a homeless peddler, Creative Self-Promotion for Taxidermists, hoping he can adapt its techniques to promote his fledgling business: Memoirs While You Wait. That book opens into a beguiling journey from fiction to truth and back again, involving Peter, his childhood friend Matthew Barber (who is undergoing emergency heart surgery), and Peter's witty, urbane alter-ego, Bertram W. Beath--an erotic opportunist and passionate spectatorof life's pageant.
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