Monogamy, marriage and honest toil are all out as life-options for Waldo.
What he thinks he wants is a nice simple girl, white and Soothing as an aspirin. What he gets is a sleazy hotel- room-full-of insatiable Older Woman. Meantime, he dreams of a typewriter helpless under his hands. And hot-foot on glittering careers as delinquent, student and one-man quiz-show, sure enough, Waldo is suddenly discovered as journalism's sunniest new talent...
'Wit and laughter... there is a scream behind the laughter... Waldo's progress is like some kind of Mod
Candide' - Harper's