The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories by Pagan Kennedy

Bemis, 'A dangerous joy of literary pleasure-a compelling, spellbinding reading experience. In this book, Pagan Kennedy writes with clarity, honesty and impeccable grace.' -Lee Gutkind, author, Almost Human: Making Robots Think, 'Kennedy prowls the shadowy, creepy, eye-popping limits of the culture where other writers fear to tread.' -John Sedgwick, author,The Dark HouseandThe Education of Mrs. you can't help falling for Pagan Kennedy's characters.' -The New York Times, 'Kennedy prowls the shadowy, creepy, eye-popping limits of the culture where other writers fear to tread.' -John Sedgwick, author, The Dark House and The Education of Mrs. you can't help falling for Pagan Kennedy's characters.' - The New York Times, 'Complicated, cool, and vulnerable at the same time.

Bemis, 'Complicated, cool, and vulnerable at the same time. you can't help falling for Pagan Kennedy's characters.' - The New York Times, 'Kennedy prowls the shadowy, creepy, eye-popping limits of the culture where other writers fear to tread.' -John Sedgwick, author, The Dark House and The Education of Mrs. Kennedy's easy style masks a fierce intelligence and painstaking artistry in this melancholy midlife crisis-with-a-twist.'Complicated, cool, and vulnerable at the same time. Mem turns out to be more than Win expects, and the plot thickens with Phil's disappearance, the threatened disintegration of Win's marriage and a hookup with Phil's most wounded and vulnerable subject. Burned out at 40 and drifting away from his wife, Edie, Win's only passion is a book he's writing about Thomas De Quincey, the infamous author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater.īut even this passion is fading and easily outweighed by the desire to revisit his days of Columbia grad school stardom. ) turns in a surprisingly bittersweet novel with science fiction overtones and a delicious premise: what if you could relive your past-highlights only? Win Duncan, a history professor at a small New Hampshire college, gets the opportunity when old college buddy Phil Litminov, now a hotshot entrepreneur and maverick investor, calls with a vague but enthusiastic offer to help test a new drug called Mem.

The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories by Pagan Kennedy