One None and a Hundred Thousand

The novel begins when Vitangelo Moscarda''s wife remarks that Vitangelo''s nose tilts to the right. This commonplace interaction spurs the novel''s unemployedwealthy narrator to examine himself the way he perceives others and the ways that others perceive him. At first he only notices small differences in how he sees himself and how others do; but his self-examination quickly becomes relentless dizzying leading to often darkly comic results as Vitangelo decides that he must demolish that version of himself that others see.