A writer named Philip Wylie, the author of Generation of Vipers, fears he may have cancer and must wait days for the verdict. He spends them in a Manhattan hotel and its bars and apartments, talking frankly with women, patients, friends and strangers about sex, religion, psychology, marriage, the Kinsey report and the bomb.
A provocative, talky satire of postwar America from one of its most combative critics. Download the free EPUB.