Penelope Ashe, Mike McGrady

Naked Came the Stranger (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The hilarious New York Times-bestselling cult classic "of such perfectly realized awfulness that it will suck your soul right out of your brainpan" ( The Village Voice) . For talk show host Gillian Blake, the suburbs have long been a paradise. On the radio, she and her husband are Gilly and Billy, local media stars and "New York's Sweethearts of the Air." At home they're the envy of their neighbors. Only in the bedroom is their life less than perfect. When Gillian learns that her husband has a mistress, she takes revenge the only way she can. With each lover she takes, her lust multiplies, until this demure housewife becomes a creature of pure passion. No man on Long Island-be he hippie, mobster, or rabbi-is safe when Gillian goes on the prowl. Written by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady and a couple dozen of his reporter colleagues under the pseudonym Penelope Ashe, Naked Came the Stranger was one of the great literary hoaxes-an attempt to produce the steamiest and most over-the-top novel of all time, good writing be damned. A sensation upon its first release, this tale of Long Island lust remains a wildly amusing parody potboiler.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781453265888
• Artikelnr.: 44661816

Autorenporträt

Mike McGrady (1933-2012) was a columnist and author best known for organizing one of the most famous literary hoaxes of the twentieth century with Naked Came the Stranger (1969). Born in New York City, he studied at Yale University under Robert Penn Warren, then joined Newsday in 1962 after a stint in the army. Inspired by the success of steamy bestsellers like Valley of the Dolls, McGrady challenged his fellow Newsday reporters to write a book so smutty and badly written that it would become a surefire hit. Two dozen writers contributed scenes and published Naked Came the Stranger under the penname Penelope Ashe. The book sold twenty thousand copies before McGrady and his fellow authors revealed the hoax, and it went on to become a cult classic. McGrady wrote fifteen books under his own name, including A Dove in Vietnam (1968) and The Kitchen Sink Papers (1975), a bestselling account of a year spent as a stay-at-home dad. Penelope Ashe, a fictional writer, was credited as authoring the 1969 bestseller Naked Came the Stranger. Later that same year, it was revealed that the book was the brainchild of twenty-four journalists, led by Mike McGrady, who aimed to expose America's mindlessly vulgar literary culture with a novel deliberately overloaded with sexual content. The novel saw an even bigger rise in popularity once the hoax was revealed. Ashe was portrayed by Billie Young, McGrady's sister-in-law, for photographs and meetings with publishers.