Marianne Hauser; The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley: An American Comedy

Series No.: NAF 08

ISBN: 978-0940650671, Pages: 362

American Literature, Fiction

A Sun & Moon title.

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“Marianne Hauser’s The Memoir of the Late Mr. Ashley is a work of genius—witty, sad, in the American grain.”

— Gore Vidal

“…With her special gift for humor [Hauser] deftly weaves the strange, the unknown, the unfamiliar, the perverse, into a fabric of human fallibilities that draws dramatic farce close to us.”

— Anaïs Nin

“With a richness and color wholly alien to the novel in America, Marianne Hauser constructs a myth close to music in its power to move the reader from one dazzling passage to the next.”

— Guy Davenport

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Now dead, Ashley, a failed writer, looks back on his life with Gwen, his wealthy spouse, and recalls the circumstances leading to his death.