La Vie Passionnée of Rodney Buckthorne A Tale of the Great American's Last Rally and Curious Death; a Novel

"Is sex the basic force of life-or is it a terminal disease? For Rodney Buckthorne, sensitive satyr, literate lecher, aging Bohemian nearing the summit in a life-long struggle up the dizzying heights of Mount Venus, the answer to this question seemed near at hand. Seeking it, he had fled wife, child, and the groves of academe, and put behind him the years misspent in guiding nubile co-eds through pastures of poetic plenty, and had launched himself into one last seminal odyssey through the hearts and beds of New York's women. His guide (and his nemesis) was Nickie Duart, a clean-cut, curly-headed, pot-smoking, vicious young artist with dreams of grandeur beyond Andy Warhol's wildest imaginings. It was through Nickie that he met Lois, the dark lady of macaroni commercials, and the too-fecund Cynthia, and Maris, and Marsie, and Regina, and the former champion baton twirler and all the ones who remained nameless in the lusting, searching nights. And as the staff of life at last began to bend and the lure of the veiled lady became blinding, it was through Nickie that he came to the end of the world, perhaps the most bizarre and ironic "happening" in modern fiction and found the answer to the riddle of his long quest. For Rodney Buckthorne, like Humbert Humbert, is a seeker-and as with Nabokov's obsessed wanderer, the passionate journey of Rodney Bucktbome casts a brilliant light on the current cultural scene and deftly pricks the frail bubble of American morality."--Amazon