Review Mr. Southern has given us a dazzling performance. This is the book of the year.Henry Green, The Observer
A technical masterpiece . . . both maddeningly elliptical and startlingly explicit. The Times
"A mad, deft book, subject to the rules of poetry. BBC Radio
Flash and Filigree is a very mysterious creation. Black humor? More than that, much more . . . Terry Southern knows how to write! William Burroughs
Flash and Filigree has an unfailing sense of the ridiculous, heightened by deadpan delivery. Time
The airless, slightly torpid climate of suburban Los Angeles and the speech of its natives is rendered with arresting vividness. Equally compelling are his bizarre protagonists. The New York Times
Written in dancing prose, Flash and Filigree is startlingly original. Detroit Sunday Times
Product Description A satirical dream-logic journey through the dark heart of 1950s Los Angeles
Dr. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Felix Treevly who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Prosaic incidents blossom into bizarre developments with the sharpened reality of dreams as the spectral Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of increasingly weird situations. With the assistance of a drunken private detective, a mad judge, a car crash, a game show called Whats My Disease, and a hashish party, Treevly drives Eichner to madness and mayhem. It is through comedy and a strange blend of violence and poetic delicacy that the novel charms.
Southerns first novel, Flash and Filigree was turned down by seventeen timorous American publishers. It was Southerns mentor, the genius English novelist Henry Green, who brought the book to the attention of a leading British publishing house, which released it to high praise. A fast-paced dark comedy, Flash and Filigree established Terry Southern as one of the finest American prose stylists to emerge in Paris after the War.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authors estate.

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Flash and filigree : a novel

Flash and Filigree Uk

by Terry Southern

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Atlantic Monthly Press

Grove Press

1st Grove Press pbk. ed., New York, New York State, April 3, 1997

First Grove Press paperback edition, New York, 1996

1st Grove Press pbk. ed, New York, 1996

United States, United States of America

1st Grove Press pbk. ed, PT, 1996

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<p><p>Terry Southern is an acclaimed satirist of American culture, the writer responsible for Candy and the screenplay of Dr. Strangelove. In Flash and Filigree, his first novel, he delivers yet another outrageously funny commentary on the dark side of our national life. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Mr. Felix Treevly, who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of hilarious and increasingly weird situations, which, with the assistance of a drunken private detective, a mad judge, a car crash, and a hashish party, finally drive him to mayhem. A wild whirlwind of a novel, Flash and Filigree is a work of comic genius from one of the wittiest writers of our time.<p></p>

APPROACHING the smart Hauptman Clinic off Wilshire Boulevard, one is sure to be struck by the estate's breadth and purity of line.

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