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A "New York Times "Notable Book Odile Mevel is a French clothing designer, her American husband, Max, an independent filmmaker. When Odile agrees to buy a selection of ceremonial May Day banners in the Soviet Union and deliver the contraband to Paris she earns a new job description: smuggler. Soon her fellow courier disappears, her apartment is ransacked, and her friend's houseboat is firebombed. While Max has no inkling of Odile's dealings,...

a political fund-raiser in New York becomes the setting for a brazen act of sexual display by young lovers. Watching them is Santiago Diaz, the benefit's speaker, who is running for the presidency of his native Mexico. Aroused and disturbed, he later befriends the couple and draws them into his entourage, his marriage, and into the vortex of trans-American politics. There Andrew and Edith discover a world where plunder dictates policy, friends...

From the author of Easy Travel to Other Planets, here is "a work of high art--intelligent, sophisticated and funny, a truly original book" (New York Times Book Review). From the hills above Los Angeles to the French town where Hitler once danced his victory jig, this alluring novel cruises the intersection between the farcical and the tragic.

One of the most original seductions in recent fiction... a novel of immensely tender feeling." -The New York Review of BooksTed Mooney's first novel Easy Travel to Other Planets endures as a cult classic known for its opening scene describing a woman having sex with a dolphin. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a finalist for the National Book Award, Mooney's inventi...