description: "What if Dostoyevsky's Underground Man escaped from the Columbia University Bookstore, wearing corduroys or blue denim, armed with an icepick, to terrorize the Hilton Hotel and Gramercy Park? What if all the other characters in all the other books in the store escaped with him - Odysseus, Hamlet, Othello, the Count of Monte Cristo, D'Artagnan, Sam Spade, Lafcadio, Mike Hammer, Tarzan, Destry, Michael Corleone, Garp, the fevered brain-children, the male chauvinistic piglets, the existential trashers of Hemingway and Mailer? Would feminism stand a chance? Victor Grant, who just happens to be the manager of the Columbia University bookstore, and whose confessions we are reading in the form of George Stade's first novel, is a garbage can of Western comparative literature. It is literature of revenge and symbolic gestures." - John Leonard, New York Times
language: English
title: Confessions of a Lady Killer
titlecomplete: Confessions of a Lady Killer
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity