Flash and Filigree

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453217283

<DIV></div><DIV><b>A satirical dream-logic journey through the dark heart of 1950s Los Angeles</b></div><DIV><b><BR></b></div><DIV>Dr. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Felix Treevly who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession.&#160;Prosaic incidents blossom into bizarre developments with the sharpened reality of dreams as the spectral Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of increasingly weird situations. With the assistance of a drunken private detective, a mad judge, a car crash, a game show called &ldquo;What&rsquo;s My Disease,&rdquo; and a hashish party, Treevly drives Eichner to madness and mayhem. It is through comedy and a strange blend of violence and poetic delicacy that the novel charms.&#160;</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Southern&rsquo;s first novel, <i>Flash and Filigree </i>was turned down by seventeen timorous American publishers. It was Southern&rsquo;s mentor, the &ldquo;genius&rdquo; English novelist Henry Green, who brought the book to the attention of a leading British publishing house, which released it to high praise. A fast-paced dark comedy, <i>Flash and Filigree</i> established Terry Southern as one of the finest American prose stylists to emerge in Paris after the War.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>