MEMOIRS OF HECATE COUNTY

by Edmund ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 7, 1946

Wilson's name will attract some readers to a book that will enhance neither his reputation nor his publishers. (They are not promoting the book as an important Wilson item, one must say in their defense!) The central character- the ""I"" of the stories -- is an artist with a tiny income, just enough to permit dabbling in second rate art among third rate people. These are adventures among his neighbors of the American country club set between the wars, trading wives and swilling bad gin, dabbling in perversion and giving lives of waste and artificial stimulus to lusts of the flesh. He has a six-month-of-the-year mistress in California, while at home he goes in for seduction at long range with a hypochondriac who teased him to the point of taking his frustrations to a taxi dancer for relief (this occupies a good half of the book with a documentary film sound track in double seduction). The other half of the book has several shorter adventures of more pallid nature.... This isn't even good erotica.

Pub Date: March 7, 1946

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1946

Categories: FICTION