Top of the World, Ma!

by Michael Guinzburg (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  An outrageous American satire on the East Coast social and art scene. Cashampton by the Sea - a normally idyllic world of sun and money, sex and fame, where the rich get richer and the poor get dead, where pet buffalo are fed imported beer and treated to Swedish massages, where men fall in love with goats, and where the great abstract impressionist painter Jackson Pollock drank himself to an early death. Enter Roger Lymon, ambitious art reviewer who has been commissioned by a Japanese industrialist to find Pollock's lost last works, and to pen a biography with evidence of Jack the Dripper's paedophilic past. But as he begins to delve into Cashampton society in his bid to uncover the truth about Pollock, things start to get a little out of control. Michael Guinzburg's second novel, a bestseller in France, is frightening and hilarious, a book of horror and delight, poetry and putridity, love and death, a savage satire and a loving embrace of humanity at its best and its worst. Following on from the critically acclaimed Beam Me Up, Scotty, Top of the World, Ma reaffirms Guinzburg as one of the most acerbic and outrageous contemporary novelists writing today.