Harry Mathews

In the early 1970s, Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent—so he decided to act the part. Part spellbinding thriller, part gag, this memoir documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during the coup in Chile, Watergate, and the close of the Vietnam War, when various foreign agencies decided he would have to...

A remarkable and unusual novel by 'one of the most remarkable prose stylists presently writing in English.' The San Francisco Chronicle. At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives an ancient golden weapon as a prize. When the mysterious host of this party dies the next day, his fortune is left to whomever it was...