A novel of romantic intrigue that foresees today's dot.com era with such characters as Uncle Caesar, with a prurient interest in the truth, in doing things right; Virginia, an Apache librarian and tutor for Jefferson Davis MacClandish; Jeff, a would-be pilot grounded in his father's business who, in turn, traps armadillos for Macy's; Mapinguari, the 6-foot tall, 500-pound Amazonian sloth with a quick paw who loves to play jacks; Miss Edith, the MacClandish matriarch, who smuggles diamonds in her unfaithful husband's colostomy bag to finance her scheme to control the Internet with a "feminine touch." Writes Bill Appel, veteran book doctor, novelist and reviewer for Publisher's Weekly: "Marvelously extraordinary, eccentric and bizarre characters and situations. I haven't read such splendid surrealism since James Purdy's Malcolm" (Farr Straus & Giroux). Wrote Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper's magazine, to the author's literary agent in 1967: "I love the way Kelton writes." Newspaper...

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