Madness, A Novel

First Edition. Author’s copy.
Have you ever gone mad? Have you ever been crazy? Have you ever slipped the border (a road, a river, a pane of glass) into the domain of the insane?
Tannenbaum, a writer, drops from the sky one late hot Friday to his answering machine on red, his more than friend Anise gone bats. Over the course of a weekend freighted with family business, film world chicanery, lawyers, uncles, doctors, ghosts, no less the unlocked labyrinthine odyssey of his own four years on the couch of a shrink, Tannenbaum, with guest appearances by such unlikely bedmates as Anna Karenin, S. J. Perelman and William
‘Naked Lunch’ Burroughs (to spin in the merest few), plunges into madness, madness indeed, madness and more, the central fear of our most mortal concerns.
Madness, A Novel is Morris Lurie’s most moving and reverberatory-with highest humour nevertheless -work to date.