My Search for Warren Harding
Robert Plunket
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Recommended by Liv
‘My Search for Warren Harding is an absolute romp. Plunket chronicles Elliot Weiner’s calamitous quest to get hold of President Warren Harding’s correspondence to his mistress Rebecca Kinney. Only one thing stands in his way – the wizened and unyeilding Kinney herself . . . Desperately funny, wickedly cruel and thoroughly mischievous – the most fun I have had with a novel for a long time.’
From the publisher
A breakneck comic tour-de-force set in 1980s Hollywood, about one man's quest to get his hands on a box of bawdy love letters
‘One of the most original comic novels of the past half century’ The New Yorker
‘Will leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face’ Houston Post
Perfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, this is Robert Plunket’s comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980’s LA
Eliot Weiner – snob, shameless opportunist, Morris dancing-obsessive – is on a mission. He has got wind of a trunk of bawdy love letters by Warren Harding, ‘the shallowest President in history’, now guarded by his octogenarian mistress on her crumbling Hollywood Hills estate. They could reignite his failing academic career – and there’s no depth to which he won’t stoop, no preposterous scheme he won’t undertake, to get at them.
With an Introduction by Danzy Senna
‘The author pulled me in so deftly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system’ Frank Conroy, Washington Post
‘A riotous debut: The Aspern Papers performed by the Brothers Marx’ Time
‘Nothing this funny is being written today’ Jacobin