The Tents of Wickedness
Peter DeVries
All these years later, Sweetie is just as devoted to art and allergic to the real world as she always was. In an effort to bring Sweetie out of her treehouse and urge her on with her life, Chick helps to get a book of her poetry published. But his plan backfires hilariously when Sweetie, with stunning alacrity, becomes the toast of Greenwich Village, tires of the up-all-night bohemian life, and decides that she wants to be a mother. For the father, she has two possibilities in mind: her literary patron or his brother-in-law, Nickie Sherman. To save his sister’s marriage, Chick will risk his own and pray that, for once, he can keep everything under control.
With a stylistic ingenuity unmatched in modern American fiction, De Vries parodies a dozen different writers in this boisterous tale of New England angst. William Faulkner, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcel Proust, Emily Dickinson, and Dylan Thomas all make uproarious appearances in The Tents of Wickedness as it gleefully skewers pretensions of every stripe.
Minor episode in a very funny literary satire–Army colonel who talks pure Hemingway turns out to be a WAC in disguise.
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Details
Genre | Grier Rated; Pulp |
Copyright Date | 1959 |
Publication Date | 1960 |
Publisher | Signet |
Format | Mass Market Paperback |
Notes | Signet D1827
Grier rating of B* |
Language | English |
Rating | Poor |
Original Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
Cover Artist | Barye Phillips |
Subject | Lesbian Sleaze |
BookID | 12997 |