Klynt's law: A novel

Baker, Elliott

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Klynt's Law

Ballantine Books

Samson Shillitoe, a carpet shampooer and aspiring young poet, finds many obstacles in his quest to finish an epic poem

A Fine Madness

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A FINE MADNESS is about a creative spirit's struggle for survival in an analytical society. Samson Shillitoe, is (according to Shelly's definition) one of "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." But poetry does not rule our world and his obsession with completing his epic poem leads to his violating most accepted standards of behavior and into conflicts, both comic and deadly, with adversaries intent on making him "normal."Since A FINE MADNESS was published in 1964 it has achieved the status of a modern comedy classic. This new edition contains a preface by the author which will add to the reader's enjoyment."I cannot imagine anyone reading A FINE MADNESS without his vision being sharpened and dignified."- New York Times Book Review

Fine Madness

Signet

The Penny Wars

A 17-year-old reaches maturity at the beginning of World War II. The Penny Wars is a novel of youth, at a time when the world seemed young, when right and wrong were poles apart. The year is 1939, and war looms in Europe. To Tyler Bishop, the whole world is about to collapse, and Tyler wants to save it. But he is only 16. So, for the present, he has to confine himself to everyday battles against the ignorance, selfishness, and apathy around him. These battles are The Penny Wars, and they make for some of the most fascinating encounters in modern fiction. Because losing his virginity is even more important to Tyler than saving the world, his adversaries involve a string of females--some young and some not so young. His other foes range from a history teacher to a local bookie, but his chief antagonist is Dr. Wolf Axelrod, a Nabokovian figure newly arrived from the Europe of war and violence. Before Dr. Axelrod appears, Tyler has claims of being the most intelligent and aware person in the community. But in Dr. Axelrod, an admirer of Goethe and an antivaccinationist fervently devoted to proving that the philosophy of Spengler is wrong, Tyler more than meets his match.

Literary

iUniverse, Inc.

Baker continuously turns laughter into pain, then back again, yet always leaving the wound of truth. -The New York Times Book Review"Baker is still the jabberwocky with jaws that bite, tickling the reader into laughter with his left claw while his right one holds a shiv." -Life Magazine"A mixture of laughter and tears expressed by a writer of rare discernment and powerful, lucid style."-Los Angeles Times"Extraordinarily well-written and shatteringly funny."-Saturday Review

iUniverse

Corey Burdick, a down at the heels Hollywood screenwriter, believes that each man should have many things he refuses to do. But he's down to his last one, namely to write for television. However, the winds of fate have other ideas and his very survival depends on them. "Mr. Baker is a natural writer who appeals to the emotions by allowing his characters to laugh and cry for themselves."-San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner

Unhealthful Air

Down-and-out screenwriter Corey Burdick lands a job butchering F. Scott Fitzgerald stories for television, while trying to set up the perfect scam at the Santa Anita racetrack for his debtor bookie and develop a romance with sensuous starlet Bambi Dookes

VIKING

And We Were Young

Contemporary

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Klynt's law: A novel

Klynt's Law

A Fine Madness

Fine Madness

The Penny Wars

The Penny Wars

Unhealthful Air

The Penny Wars

Unhealthful Air

And We Were Young