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by Edmund Wilson • Introduction by Louis Menand
A powerful novel, Memoirs of Hecate County has been overlooked, perhaps because of Edmund Wilson's commanding reputation as a critic, but also no doubt because its unsentimental depictions of sex attracted the attentions of the censor and provoked a scandal. Hecate County is a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and fantasies of sexual fulfillment take form or fade away in an atmosphere of persistent unreality. But at the heart of Wilson's book is a New York story, "The Princess with the Golden Hair," a riveting, comic, and ultimately very moving account of man caught up in concurrent love affairs. "No longer shocking, and never meant to be, this 'memoir' remains, I think, a work of exemplary merit, still the most intelligent attempt by an American male to dramatize sexual behavior as a function of, rather than a suspension of, personality."—John Updike
PB • 5" x 8" • 472 pp
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