Corbie

by Robert Newman

A man in flight from what? To what? This novel charts his journey as the hallucinatory and phantasmagorical overtakes the real. John Corbie, formerly Andy Snyder of Westport, runs away to the Southwest to start again and there is involved with (a) Anson Laswell, head of a large laboratory whose assistant he becomes; (b) Sukey, Laswell's half-Japanese niece who is most alluring but wears a chastity belt with an indecipherable lock; (c) Dr. Brock, the laboratory's former physicist who disappears in the desert; (d) Bjorn, an agitator, who turns out to be Sukey's father; (e) a women with whom he falls in love.... It's full of glossy modern paraphernalia (wordplay; phenomenology; mystique) but it all seems to be as much of a contemporary shell game as an entertainment. ~Kirkus

314 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

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Mr. Newman, who was born in Manhattan, began his career as a writer for radio shows. In 1944, he was in charge of the radio portion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's re-election campaign. He also wrote ''Search for Tomorrow'' and ''Peyton Place'' episodes for television.

From 1973 to 1988, he wrote books for young people, including ''The Case of the Baker Street Irregular,'' published by Atheneum in 1978, and many novels.