Take Five

Take Five - American Literature

1st Dalkey Archive Edition

Paperback (01 Apr 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s. Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing Jesus 2001, what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather), descendent of a wealthy and prestigious New York family whose wealth and prestige are in sharp decline, racist and anti-Semite (though Simon dislikes all ethnic groups equally), possessor of never-satisfied appetites (food, women, drink, but most of all, money and more money), and the fastest talker since Falstaff, Simon is on a quest that goes backwards. Through the course of this 600-page novel, Simon loses, one by one, all of his senses, ending in a state of complete debilitation through which he is being made ready for eternity and possible salvation.

Book information

ISBN: 9781564781932
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 582
Weight: 784g
Height: 235mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 32mm