Seven Days in Rio

by Francis Levy

Overview

"I have come to regard almost everything that happens in human life as a form of therapy."
So muses Kenny Kaufman, always dapper in his seersucker suit from the Brooks Brothers 1818 collection. Kenny is a CPA, amateur psychoanalyst, and sex-tourist vacationing in Rio when he gets waylaid at a psychoanalytic conference, and is forced to confront his "mommy" issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983247197
Publisher:	Two Dollar Radio
Publication date:	08/16/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	448 KB

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."

Editorial Reviews

While Levy's (Erotomania: A Romance) comedy is about sex, it's not a sex comedy. Rather, it's a hilarious and absurdist romp that turns the cultural fascination with sex on its head. Kenny Cantor is a New York CPA vacationing in a Brazil where sex seems to be everywhere. He wants a long-term relationship with a prostitute, and calls all prostitutes "Tiffany," his pet name. Most of the women (and some of the men) he meets are Tiffanys; "I decided that the best thing I could do was to keep in motion until I found the Tiffany I was looking for." Women are quick to reveal their genitalia to Kenny (though he falls in love often, he actually has little sex) and flaunt their advanced liberal arts degrees. One conducts a business call to China while on the clock with him. Stumbling upon an international psychiatrists' convention, Kenny wants to complete years of therapy via back-to-back one-minute sessions. A slim, swift novel without chapter breaks, Levy's latest is neither sexy nor sexist, despite its obsessions. This riotous look inside the mind of a sexually preoccupied, ambitious American male is as intellectually provocative as it is ridiculous. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly