The Other Hand Clapping

"Larry felt something he hadn''t experienced for years-the sharp clutch of jealousy twisting his stomach. In all the years they''d been together, he''d never doubted Eleanor''s fidelity in the slightest."In this striking, startling novel, Vassi turns his talent to a tale that blends Zen and jealous passion into a suspenseful, erotically charged thriller. For Larry, he wonders if the evidence of his wife''s supposed infidelity is real, or a hallucination produced by his own meditations . . . and inner fears. It all builds to a shattering climax that reexamines the idea of life, death, and sex.Marco Vassi was, without a doubt, the foremost erotic writer of our generation. Praised by Norman Mailer, Kate Millett, Saul Bellow, and Gore Vidal, he was not only the ultimate sexual explorer, but a literary craftsman whose own life experiences became the stuff of his fiction-expanded, of course, by a grand imagination and a full sense of the absurd.Tragically, Vassi died from pneumonia after he had contracted AIDS.