Take five
By: D. Keith Mano.
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Normal, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
Subjects: Motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction.; Senses and sensation -- Fiction.; Gluttony -- Fiction.
Description: Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s.

Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing Jesus 2001, what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather), descendent of a wealthy and prestigious New York family whose wealth and prestige are in sharp decline, racist and anti-Semite (though Simon dislikes all ethnic groups equally), possessor of never-satisfied appetites (food, women, drink, but most of all, money and more money), and the fastest talker since Falstaff, Simon is on a quest that goes backwards.

Through the course of this 600-page novel, Simon loses, one by one, all of his senses, ending in a state of complete debilitation through which he is being made ready for eternity and possible salvation.