A young writer-to-be embarks on a comic coming-of-age journey through the crushing mediocrity of work, the vagaries of fate, and the mysteries of sex. A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles through two engagements, one to a bright-eyed Catholic virgin, the other to a woman pregnant with another man's child. And the Great American Novel he is writing 'about a man named Austin who is becoming invisible' may be a bit too much for the reading public to handle. But as long as he's got his friends (like Jose, who is determined to bed and wed his cousin Rita the nun), his health (no thanks to the medical establishment that killed his father), and his libido, everything should turn out okay. Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel 'more outrageous than Catcher in the Rye and more scandalous than Portnoy's Complaint'Charles Simmons's Powdered Eggs is an unforgettable view of young American life through an amusingly jaundiced eye.

Powdered Eggs

SIMMONS, CHARLES

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Jonathan Margin and Newbold Press, the man everyone loves to bait, struggle for editorial control of a book review magazine

The Belles Lettres Papers

A beleaguered young editor at a famous girly magazine swears off sex, only to find himself more deeply mired in lust and love than ever before. There are perks to working at a men's magazine that unabashedly celebrates the unclothed female form. However, the constant parade of exquisitely beautiful women strolling in and out of Oliver Bacon's office can prove most distracting. Oliver opts to treat his situation with extreme measures: he resolves to try celibacy. But being chaste is easier said than done when one is toiling in a garden of earthly delights, with temptation blooming all around. The challenge gets even more difficult when a particular darling turns up to plunge Oliver's life and libido both into pure chaos. In an insightful and outrageous romp, Charles Simmons wickedly charts the minefields of lust and love.

AN Old-fashioned Darling

Vignettes from the life of a divorced, middle-aged writer demonstrate that age does not automatically bring wisdom

Wrinkles

Forms a poignant account of the course of man's life, with each chapter focused thematically and moving from past memories, to the present, to an imagined future

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Belles Lettres Papers (Alison Press Books)

Alison Press/Secker &Warburg

A Scripture Manual

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

History

Americas

Kessinger Pub Co

BANTAM BOOKS

In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned....So begins this luminous story of a young man's passage through the dark turns of adult passion. A contemporary retelling of Turgenev's classic tale "First Love," Salt Water is set against a summer landscape of water, sand, and sky, and relates in seductive detail the momentous events that changed a family forever. On an isolated island off the Atlantic coast, fifteen-year-old Michael and his parents begin their customary lazy vacation. When two exquisite flirts shatter the calm, Michael experiences the provocative mysteries and the consequences of various kinds of love -- romantic and sensual, paternal and filial. William Faulkner Award-winning author Charles Simmons explores the very heart of the human need to be wanted, the intricacies of the father-son bond, and a boy's adolescence in all of its desires, confusion, and heartbreak.

Salt Water

Contemporary

GALLERY BOOKS

Jonathan Margin and Newbold Press, the man everyone loves to bait, struggle for editorial control of a book review magazine

William Morrow

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Powdered Eggs

The Belles Lettres Papers

AN Old-fashioned Darling

Wrinkles

Wrinkles

Belles Lettres Papers (Alison Press Books)

A Scripture Manual

Wrinkles

Salt Water

The Belles Lettres Papers