Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual

by Alexander Theroux Alexander Theroux National Book Award Nominee returns after 20 years with a compendious satire of the terrors of contemporary life. Nostalgic for the old days and old manners a way of life lost to grace loving from afar a mysterious beauty named Rapunzel Wisht Eugene Eyestones an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine fights against the rising tide of stupidity focusing on would-be artist Laura Warholic in the hope that by saving her he can validate his ethical beliefs. But feckless Laura and the colorful-but-bizarre cast of characters surrounding Eugene - brilliant bigots nihilists Generation-X slackers and zanies of all sexual persuasions - threaten to pull him under leading to the novels unforgettable conclusion a climax of betrayal and redemption of Dostoevskyan power.