{"product_id":"my-search-for-warren-harding-9780241707999","title":"My Search for Warren Harding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA breakneck comic tour-de-force set in 1980s Hollywood, about one man's quest to get his hands on a box of bawdy love letters  Elliot Weiner is a historian with a passion for Morris dancing and Warren Harding, 'the shallowest President in history'. After Weiner receives a research grant to write a book on Harding's tumultuous life, he gets wind of a trunkful of the twenty-ninth president's billets-doux, rumoured to be guarded by his ancient mistress on her declining Hollywood Hills estate. There's no depth to which he won't stoop, no moral boundary he won't traverse and no preposterous scheme he won't machinate to get at them.  First published in 1983, My Search for Warren Harding garnered immediate acclaim and was described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as 'a classic picaresque novel in the tradition of Cervantes'; Robert Plunket's original fans included Amy Sedaris, Larry David and Madonna. In this deliciously bonkers novel, The Aspern Papers meets A Confederacy of Dunces meets Sunset Boulevard meets pure, glorious, hair-raising farce.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780241707999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 06 May 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x1.7(W)226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 226\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eRobert Plunket (Author)  Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas, in 1945, but raised in Havana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. His has published two novels, My Search for Warren Harding (1983) and Love Junkie (1992). He is currently retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, Florida, where he enjoys collecting old quilts and raising succulents from scratch.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eOne of the most original comic novels of the past half century * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eThere’s a subversive thrill to reading this novel... Elliot Weiner is a snob. He’s vain, shallow and shameless. He’s lazy and untrustworthy. He’s a bitch too, quick to make an acid observation. And these are just some of the reasons why he’s a brilliant narrator. Who wouldn’t want to spend 300 pages in his company? * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Search for Warren Harding \u003c\/i\u003eis essentially a picaresque novel and, as in all such works, we meet with grotesques. I am reminded of \u003ci\u003eLolita. \u003c\/i\u003eA nasty person with a fancy prose style teaches us about America... Weiner, in the grand tradition of the comic unreliable narrator, reveals himself to be a half-insane monster... That’s the thing about a certain kind of bitchiness: it’s rarely dull... Exquisite * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eA satirical evisceration of the Hollywood celebrity scene... a madcap plot, and a host of vivid supporting characters * The Herald *\u003cbr\u003eMost of all what \u003ci\u003eMy Search for Warren Harding \u003c\/i\u003econveys is a devil-may-care, not-giving-a-damn energy that makes no concessions to taste, simply offers its manic vision to the reader and says “take it or leave it”. I’ll take it * The Critic *","brand":"Robert Plunket","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50837515436249,"sku":"9780241707999","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780241707999.jpg?v=1793105026","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/my-search-for-warren-harding-9780241707999","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}