An Innocent MillionaireUniversity of Chicago Press, 1990 M11 15 - 380 pages "Brilliantly inventive, written with great flair and shows a deliciously comic and ironic sense of American realities."—Alfred Kazin "The virtues of [Vizinczey's] style are those he finds in Hungarian poetry: the moody ferocity of a locked-up beast, and also a classic clarity and complete lack of self-indulgence."—Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor "Shows where the true values lie—not in wealth or the rule of law but in that as yet inviolate sector where a man and woman make love. . . . I was entertained but also deeply moved: here is a novel set bang in the middle of our decadent, polluted, corrupt world that, in some curious way, breathes a kind of desperate hope."—Anthony Burgess, Punch (London) "Bravo!"—Graham Greene |
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Contents
A Bitter Thought | 1 |
Making a Killingthe 19th Century Origins of a 2Oth Century Drama of Greed Love and Malice | 2 |
First Impressions | 7 |
Money Is the Only Home | 16 |
A View of Toledo | 23 |
Father and Son | 28 |
Help from the Dead | 41 |
Hope Deferred | 48 |
Love and Deceit | 178 |
Business Associates | 183 |
Moment of Truth | 189 |
Friends | 194 |
A Very Expensive Lecture | 202 |
Fame | 211 |
A Loving Couple | 218 |
Kindred Spirits | 226 |
Rumors of War | 57 |
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus | 63 |
An Incident Involving an Apple | 70 |
Touch and Go | 76 |
Interesting Combinations | 81 |
The Weekend Marriage | 89 |
Why Not? | 102 |
Past Crimes and a New Blunder | 108 |
An Island of the Very Rich | 113 |
The Twists and Turns of Falling in Love | 126 |
The Twists and Turns of Falling in Love Contd | 138 |
Second Chance | 144 |
A Monstrous Remark | 153 |
A Successful Woman | 162 |
The Triangle | 169 |
Paranoia | 237 |
A Beautiful Idea | 245 |
The Contract | 251 |
Oh to Be Rich and Good | 261 |
Phone Calls Cables Letters | 268 |
Games Lawyers Play | 275 |
Who Cares? | 291 |
Games Lawyers Play Contd | 299 |
Games Lawyers Play Contd | 309 |
Each Man Is His Own Victim | 321 |
A Wifes Coughing | 332 |
A New Life | 343 |
A Kind of Immortality | 360 |
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