Synopses & Reviews
"A hilarious and absurdist romp that turns the cultural fascination with sex on its head. This riotous look inside the mind of a sexually preoccupied, ambitious American male is as intellectually provocative as it is ridiculous."
-Publishers Weekly
"Seven Days in Rio is the best buy of the decade; it's worth a full course of psychoanalytic therapy of whatever persuasion. Reading this book will have the added benefit of curing you of psychoanalysis itself, not just the neuroses psychoanlysis guns for. In other words, by reading Levy you get seven days in Rio living like an exiled great duchess in excellent health and rolling in dough. Additionally, you also get the pleasure of schadenfreude because you realize that for the price of a book you get what people spent fortunes for in the past. If Levy ever gets retroactive, he could take the cash from all the business Freud's spanned and distribute it to you, readers. You'd all be rich. And smarter. Oh yeah, and he's hilarious."
-Andrei Codrescu
I have come to regard almost everything that happens in human life as a form of therapy.
So muses Kenny Cantor, always dapper in his seersucker suit from the Brooks Brothers 346 collection. Kenny is a CPA, amateur psychoanalyst, and sex-tourist vacationing in Rio when he gets waylaid at a psychoanalytic conference.
What ensues is a provocative journey that merges sex and psychoanalysis through Rio's tawdry netherworld of Susan Sontag-quoting denizens as only an incendiary voice like Francis Levy could imagine.
Francis Levy is the author of Erotomania: A Romance, a Queerty.com Top 10 Book of 2008 and an Inland Empire Weekly Standout Book of 2008. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and many others.
Synopsis
"Nicholson Baker and Mary Gaitskill's French-kissing cousin."The Village Voice
"Sex is familiar, but it's perennial, and Levy makes it fresh."Los Angeles Times
"Francis Levy is our generation's D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Charles Bukowski rolled into one."Inland Empire Weekly
"Levy seems to have an eye for detail for all that is absurd, commonly human, and uniquely American."Bookslut
I have come to regard almost everything that happens in human life as a form of therapy.
So muses Kenny Cantor, always dapper in his seersucker suit from the Brooks Brothers 346 collection. Kenny is a CPA, amateur psychoanalyst, and sex-tourist vacationing in Rio when he gets waylaid at a psychoanalytic conference.
What ensues is a provocative journey that merges sex and psychoanalysis through Rio's tawdry netherworld of Susan Sontag-quoting denizens as only an incendiary voice like Francis Levy could imagine.
Francis Levy is the author of Erotomania: A Romance, a Queerty.com Top 10 Book of 2008 and an Inland Empire Weekly Standout Book of 2008. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and many others. He is the co-director of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, where he supervises roundtable discussions on topics as varied as "The Psychology of the Modern Nation State" and "Traffic Congestion, Behavior Theory, and Imagination."
Synopsis
An incendiary and provocative new novel from "Nicholson Baker and Mary Gaitskill's French-kissing cousin"!
Synopsis
"The funniest American novel since Sam Lipsyte's The Ask."
-Village Voice
"A ribald chronicle of [a] 60-something Manhattan accountant, who's come to Rio de Janeiro as a sex tourist. [A] fever dream of a novel."
-New York Times Book Review
"Levy delivers a visceral blend of hilarious satire and study in human sexuality, taking us on a deviant tour of Rio."
-Interview Magazine
I have come to regard almost everything that happens in human life as a form of therapy.
So muses Kenny Cantor, always dapper in his seersucker suit from the Brooks Brothers 346 collection. Kenny is a CPA, amateur psychoanalyst, and sex-tourist vacationing in Rio when he gets waylaid at a psychoanalytic conference.
What ensues is a provocative journey that merges sex and psychoanalysis through Rio's tawdry netherworld of Susan Sontag-quoting denizens as only an incendiary voice like Francis Levy could imagine.
Francis Levy is the author of Erotomania: A Romance, a Queerty.com Top 10 Book of 2008 and an Inland Empire Weekly Standout Book of 2008. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and many others.
About the Author
Francis Levy is the author of
Erotomania: A Romance, a Queerty.com Top 10 Book of 2008 and an Inland Empire Weekly Standout Book of 2008.
His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and many others.
He is presently the co-director of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, where he supervises roundtable discussions on topics as varied as "The Psychology of the Modern Nation State" and "Traffic Congestion, Behavior Theory and Imagination."