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This humorous romp through the psyche of an endearingly kooky author will find a ready-made audience in Reiner's legion of fans. - Booklist
Simon and Schuster
February 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0743286693
Hardcover
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The hero of Carl Reiner's nutty and wonderful novel, Nat
Noland, is hard at work on his fifth book, his own version
of Genesis, concentrating on the relationship between Cain
and Abel. While investigating their relationship, he starts
to investigate his relationship with himself. His doting
wife, Glennie, gets worried when she hears him having a
loud, heated discussion while he's alone in the basement.
Because he is unaware that he is talking to himself — in two
distinct voices — she encourages him to seek the help of the
famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr. Frucht. After
a few sessions, Dr. Frucht elicits descriptions of Nat's
recurring childhood dreams and the fact that he never knew
his biological parents. In the lobby, when Nat bumps into
the lovely Dr. Gertrude Trampleasure, an empathologist, she
tells him how much he resembles her old teenage sweetheart,
Buddy Keebler: "You two could be twins!" With the assistance
of a private eye, Nat embarks on a quest to search for this
"twin" and his unknown past, while continuing to work on his
biblical novel, NNNNN.
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