Passionate Spectator

In Passionate Spectator memoirist Peter Leroy and his wife Albertine are living by the skin of their teeth in Manhattan. Casting about for a source of income Peter purchases a book from a homeless peddler Creative Self-Promotion for Taxidermists hoping he can adapt its techniques to promote his fledgling business: Memoirs While You Wait. That book opens into a beguiling journey from fiction to truth and back again involving Peter his childhood friend Matthew Barber (who is undergoing emergency heart surgery) and Peter''s witty urbane alter-ego Bertram W. Beath--an erotic opportunist and passionate spectatorof life''s pageant.