My Search for Warren Harding

Author: Plunket, Robert

Brand: Penguin Classics

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 256

Release Date: 06-02-2025

Part Number: 9780241707999

Details: Elliot Weiner is a historian with a passion for Morris dancing and Warren Harding, ‘the shallowest President in history'. After Weiner receives a research grant to write a book on Harding’s tumultuous life, he gets wind of a trunkful of the twenty-ninth president’s billets-doux, rumoured to be guarded by his ancient mistress on her declining Hollywood Hills estate. There's no depth to which he won't stoop, no moral boundary he won't traverse, and no preposterous scheme he won't machinate to get at them.

First published in 1983, My Search for Warren Harding garnered immediate acclaim and was described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as 'a classic picaresque novel in the tradition of Cervantes'; Robert Plunket’s original fans included Amy Sedaris, Larry David and Madonna. In this deliciously bonkers novel, The Aspern Papers meets A Confederacy of Dunces meets Sunset Boulevard meets pure, glorious, hair-raising farce.

EAN: 9780241707999

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English