My Life in teh CIA

[Monroe, Dave]

My Life in CIA

American Literature Series
A Novel
May 2005
249 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
$13.95, paperback,1-56478-392-8

Through a series of improbable coincidences' in the early 1970s Harry
Mathews' then living in France' was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent. Even
his closest friends had their suspicions' which were only reinforced each
time he tried to deny such a connection. With growing frustration at his
inability to make anyone believe him' Mathews decided to act the part. My
Life in CIA documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during 1973'
where amid charged world events-the coup in Chile' Watergate' the ending of
the Vietnam War-he found himself engaged in a game that took sinister twists
as various foreign agencies were interested in him for their own dubious
purposes. Harry Mathews has turned these strange events into a spellbinding
thriller that relentlessly blurs the line between fact and fiction.

Harry Mathews was born and raised on New York's Upper East Side' but left
America for France in 1952 shortly after graduating from Harvard. He has
written over a dozen books' including the novels Cigarettes' The Journalist'
and Tlooth' along with collected stories' The Human Country' and essays' The
Case of the Persevering Maltese. Mathews is also the only American member of
the Oulipo' the Workshop for Potential Literature' France's longest' and
most active' literary movement. Currently he divides his time between Paris'
Key West' and New York.

http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/mathews.html#my%20life

Harry Mathews

http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/mathews.html

On similarities betwixt Mathews' The Conversios and Pynchon's The Crying of
Lot 49, see ...

O'Donnell, Patrick.  New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49.
   New York: Cambridge UP, 1992.

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521388333

Sorry, can't recall which essay here, I don't seem to have mentioned it in
the archives, and teh amazon.com "Search Inside the Book" is down, sorry ...
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