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Häftad, Engelska, 2024
156 kr
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Adored by the likes of Amy Sedaris, Madonna (who optioned the film rights), and Gordon Lish, Love Junkie is Robert Plunket’s cult novel of the heady heyday of gay New York at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic: scandalously long out of print, it is now gloriously reissued for a new generation of readers.Mimi Smithers, a modern-day Emma Bovary, is a fortyish suburban housewife who has an eye for décor and dreams of hosting lavish cocktail parties. Reflecting on her time in Tehran with her Union Carbide executive husband, she says, “In the waning months of the Shah’s regime, entertaining became more and more difficult. Hams—always a problem in Islamic countries—were as rare as hen’s teeth.” After their move to Westchester, a party she hosts for Mrs. Rockefeller goes south, and she falls into a deep funk. But then life takes an unexpected turn when she stumbles down into the gay rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society and meets Joel, a porn star with a chest “as smooth as a Ken doll.” Soon she’s helping him with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, “verbal abuse audiotapes”), and her real dreams and adventures begin.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
132 kr
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‘One of the most original comic novels of the past half century’ The New Yorker‘Will leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face’ Houston PostPerfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, this is Robert Plunket’s comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980’s LA Eliot Weiner – snob, shameless opportunist, Morris dancing-obsessive – is on a mission. He has got wind of a trunk of bawdy love letters by Warren Harding, ‘the shallowest President in history’, now guarded by his octogenarian mistress on her crumbling Hollywood Hills estate. They could reignite his failing academic career – and there’s no depth to which he won’t stoop, no preposterous scheme he won’t undertake, to get at them.With an Introduction by Danzy Senna‘The author pulled me in so deftly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system’ Frank Conroy, Washington Post ‘A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx’ Time‘Nothing this funny is being written today’ Jacobin
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
148 kr
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A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie is a riotously funny, razor-sharp tale about wanting it all‘He was a charismatic porn star who sold his dirty underwear. I was an upper-middle-class housewife from Bronxville’Mimi Smithers, bored aesthete manquée, lives with her husband Boyce in the New York suburbs, where dreams of dazzling social success elude her. Life takes a quite unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a stunningly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, 'verbal abuse audiotapes'), and her real adventures begin.‘A comedy of manners with a time bomb ticking behind the curtain’ The New York Times‘One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era’ The Nation
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
197 kr
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When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket’s glittering story of literary sleuthing and deceit, first appeared in 1983, it garnered immediate and far-reaching acclaim. Frank Conroy at The Washington Post exclaimed, “The author pulled me in so deftly, moved me up an escalating scale of sly hyperbole so cunningly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system”; Florence King at , “The most exciting event in American letters for a very long time: a momentous book.” More recently, though long out of print, it was canonised in The Guardian’s “1000 Novels Everyone Must Read,” ranked by the Washington Post as one of the top five books of “great American comic fiction,” and praised by Michael Leone in The Los Angeles Review of Books as “a classic picaresque novel in the tradition of Cervantes.”Set against the fading light of early-1980s Hollywood, our deeply flawed, bigoted, closeted antihero Elliot Weiner is a historian—Harvard BA, Columbia PhD—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 the tumultuous life of Harding, he gets wind of a trunkful of the 29th president’s bawdy billets-doux that is rumoured to be fiercely guarded by his ancient mistress Rebekah Kinney on her declining Hollywood Hills estate. Nothing and no one can stand in the way of Weiner getting his paws on the treasure, and along the way, as the words dance across the page, a hysterical, guffaw-inducing punchline around every corner, Weiner reaches new lows of humiliation and self-delusion.
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Engelska, 2025100 kr
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‘One of the most original comic novels of the past half century’ The New Yorker‘Will leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face’ Houston PostPerfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, this is Robert Plunket’s comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980’s LA Eliot Weiner – snob, shameless opportunist, Morris dancing-obsessive – is on a mission. He has got wind of a trunk of bawdy love letters by Warren Harding, ‘the shallowest President in history’, now guarded by his octogenarian mistress on her crumbling Hollywood Hills estate. They could reignite his failing academic career – and there’s no depth to which he won’t stoop, no preposterous scheme he won’t undertake, to get at them.With an Introduction by Danzy Senna‘The author pulled me in so deftly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system’ Frank Conroy, Washington Post ‘A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx’ Time‘Nothing this funny is being written today’ Jacobin
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Engelska, 2025193 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin.Perfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, this is Robert Plunket's comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980's LA Eliot Weiner - snob, shameless opportunist, Morris dancing-obsessive - is on a mission. He has got wind of a trunk of bawdy love letters by Warren Harding, 'the shallowest President in history', now guarded by his octogenarian mistress on her crumbling Hollywood Hills estate. They could reignite his failing academic career - and there's no depth to which he won't stoop, no preposterous scheme he won't undertake, to get at them.With an Introduction by Danzy Senna'One of the most original comic novels of the past half century' The New Yorker'Will leave you so giddy you'll go and kick sand in somebody's face' Houston Post'The author pulled me in so deftly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system' Frank Conroy, Washington Post'A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx' Time'Nothing this funny is being written today' Jacobin(c) Robert Plunket 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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Engelska, 2026118 kr
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A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie is a riotously funny, razor-sharp tale about wanting it all‘He was a charismatic porn star who sold his dirty underwear. I was an upper-middle-class housewife from Bronxville’Mimi Smithers, bored aesthete manquée, lives with her husband Boyce in the New York suburbs, where dreams of dazzling social success elude her. Life takes a quite unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a stunningly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, 'verbal abuse audiotapes'), and her real adventures begin.‘A comedy of manners with a time bomb ticking behind the curtain’ The New York Times‘One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era’ The Nation
Häftad, Spanska, 2026
349 kr
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Spanska, 2025163 kr
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Publicada en 1983, convertida en titulo de culto (Madonna la adoraba y Larry David obligaba a los guionistas de Seinfeld a leerla), Los papeles de Harding es una de las novelas mas divertidas, provocadoras e incorrectas de las ultimas decadas. Impedimenta recupera esta joya comica queer, delirante y grotesca, que es tambien, en el fondo, una satira despiadada sobre la identidad americana, la impostura academica y el fracaso personal elevado a arte. Elliot Weiner es brillante, doctorado en Columbia, licenciado en Harvard, apasionado de la danza Morris, experto en el muy olvidado presidente Warren Harding y, sobre todo, un ser humano mezquino, ridiculo y desesperado. Tras obtener una beca de investigacion, descubre que la clave para su futura gloria academica yace en un baul repleto de cartas eroticas del vigesimo noveno presidente de los Estados Unidos. La guardiana del tesoro es Rebekah Kinney, la anciana y formidable amante de Harding, atrincherada en una mansion decadente de Hollywood. Pero lo que empieza como una pesquisa historiografica se convierte en una espiral de obsesion, verguenza ajena, delirio sexual reprimido y autoengano puro. Elliot Weiner cruzara la linea de lo comico, de lo patetico y de lo miserable, en una obra maestra en la que se dan la mano la satira politica, la cultura pop y el mas corrosivo retrato de la America decadente. Una satira corrosiva y sin tapujos que hereda lo mejor de la gran tradicion comica americana. Plunket despieza la cultura del exito y la convierte en una farsa gloriosa, delirante y profundamente humana. CRITICA Una de las novelas comicas mas originales del ultimo medio siglo. The New Yorker Leer esta novela produce una emocion subversiva...Elliot Weiner es un snob. Es vanidoso, superficial y desvergonzado. Es perezoso y falso. Tambien es una zorra, rapida para hacer una observacion acida. The Times Una satirica evisceracion del mundo de los famosos de Hollywood... una trama disparatada y un sinfin de vividos personajes secundarios. The Herald El autor me atrajo tan habilmente, me hizo ascender por una escala de hiperboles tan astutamente que, al cabo de cien paginas, me parecio haber entregado las llaves, por asi decirlo, de mi sistema nervioso... Frank Conroy, The Washington Post Un debut desenfrenado: Los papeles de Aspern interpretados por los hermanos Marx. Time Es raro que se redescubra a un escritor largamente olvidado en su octava decada. Lo que es aun mas inusual sobre Plunket, y su improbable regreso, es lo sigilosamente influyente que ha sido su ficcion a lo largo de las decadas. Alexandra Alter, The New York Times