This new Everyman is Benny Walsh, busboy at the Homestead restaurant in New York City and autograph hunter extraordinaire. Benny, according to the New York Review of Books, "is the Rochefoucauld of media-living, his aphorisms ring true as crystal:' We follow him through one demented week, become embroiled in his war with his arch-enemy, Garcia the headwaiter, his almost-love affair with Gloria, his suffocating relationship with his mother, and his hilarious pursuit of the famous. It is a week when things go out of control - the job, the world, the whole precarious network of enchantment that has been holding in check the final catastrophic flowering of his obsession.

This "brilliantly funny and poignant first novel" (Publishers Weekly) is now re-issued fifteen years after first publication.

"In a wild, hilarious and ultimately terrifying work, John Lahr has created a new Everyman"

Studs Terkel

"First rate ... an accomplished tour de force!'

N. Y. Times

"It is a funny, moving, terrifying portrait of the dream life of America - haunting, beautifully written. I think it is a very important book:'

Arthur Kopit

'Brilliantly funny and poignant first novel.'

Publisher's Weekly

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