The Teleportation Accident

HISTORY HAPPENED WHILE YOU WERE HUNGOVERWhen you havent had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that is happening to anyone anywhere. If youre living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isnt. But thats no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theatres of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: whether it was really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, the great Renaissance stage designer Adriano Lavicini; and why a handsome, clever, charming, modest guy like him cant, just once in a while, get himself laid. From the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle comes a historical novel that doesnt know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that cant remember what isotope means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it. LETS HOPE THE PARTY WAS WORTH IT

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