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Overview
In Passionate Spectator, memoirist Peter Leroy and his wife Albertine are living by the skin of their teeth in Manhattan. Casting about for a source of income, Peter purchases a book from a homeless peddler, Creative Self-Promotion for Taxidermists, hoping he can adapt its techniques to promote his fledgling business: Memoirs While You Wait. That book opens into a beguiling journey from fiction to truth and back again, involving Peter, his childhood friend Matthew Barber (who is undergoing emergency heart surgery), and Peter's witty, urbane alter-ego, Bertram W. Beath--an erotic opportunist and "passionate spectator"of life's pageant.
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- ISBN-13: 9780312424848
- ISBN-10: 0312424841
- Publisher: Picador USA
- Publish Date: July 2005
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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