The Great American Novel

The Great American Novel is a book which could only have been written by the humorist of Portnoy's Complaint, the satirist of Our Gang, and the fantasist of The Breast. It is a ruthlessly comic epic that's a cross between farce and folk-lore and which laughingly lays into the self-satisfied legends of manliness, brotherhood and community, upon which generations of Americans have been raised. And, of course, it debunks-once and for all- the grandiose legend of the 'great American novel' itself.