Singing into the Piano by Ted Mooney - ISBN: 9780679743064
Paperback
Erotic risk meets political power; love, loyalty, and nations collide.

Singing into the Piano

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    15 April 1999

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Summary

“A fascinating work” (Newsday) of intellectual and erotic provocation in which a couple are drawn into the high-wire political campaign and marriage of a Mexican popular hero who’s running for his country’s presidency.

At a political fundraiser in New York, Andrew and Edith inaugurate their love affair with a brazen sexual spectacle. Watching them is the event’s speaker, Santiago Diaz, a Mexican popular hero running for his country’s presidency. He is aroused, disturbed, and intent on…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780679743064
ISBN-10:0679743065
Author:Ted Mooney
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Vintage Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:15 April 1999
Weight:437g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 19mm
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Critics Review

Praise for Ted Mooney

“[A] combustible literary cross between Hawkesian avant-garde and Don DeLillo’s post-modern cool.” —The New York Times

“Unsettling, coolly intense…. Mooney is a risk-taking adventurer in novelistic possibilities.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Equally enchanting and disorienting.” —Boston Book Review

“A novelist with a gift for razor-sharp dialogue, for the brilliantly chiseled sentence, and the memorably vivid scene…. A fascinating work.” —Newsday

About The Author

Ted Mooney

Ted Mooney is the author of Easy Travel to Other Planets, Traffic and Laughter, Singing into the Piano, and The Same River Twice. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Granta, and The New American Review, and he received grants from the Guggenheim and the Ingram Merrill foundations. He died in 2022.

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