Good condition.

Good condition.

370 pages. Softcover. Good condition FICTION. Burleigh Bennett, a chaste but

370 pages. Softcover. Good condition FICTION. Burleigh Bennett, a chaste but otherwise learned writer of newspaper obituaries, is used to capping a night's work of tending to the dead by satisfying his own deepest hungers at his favorite New York restaurant, where the obliging staff helps maintain his weight at a nice round three hundred pounds. When Burl stumbles one night into a gangland slaying, his life of moral virtue and culinary vice is turned upside down, and he embarks on a uniquely American odyssey that gives life to the adage "Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out." "A peculiar and wonderful first novel, full of surprises and small excitements, just the kind of thing to put the pleasure back in reading."-Frederick Barthelme, author. (Key Words: Murder Mysteries, Fiction, Novels, Literature, Daniel Akst, Comedy, Sex, Death, Food).