Title: V.
First published: 1963
Description: Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V [Victoria Wren], who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.
Subjects: Fiction, Missing persons, Psychological fiction, Bohemianism, Symbolism, Rogues and vagabonds, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction in English, Missing persons--fiction, Ps3566.y55 v2 2005, 813/.54, Hu 4796