Singing into the Piano

by Ted Mooney

“A fascinating work” ( Newsday ) of intellectual and erotic provocation in which a couple are drawn into the high-wire political campaign and marriage of a Mexican popular hero who’s running for his country’s presidency.

At a political fundraiser in New York, Andrew and Edith inaugurate their love affair with a brazen sexual spectacle. Watching them is the event’s speaker, Santiago Diaz, a Mexican popular hero running for his country’s presidency. He is aroused, disturbed, and intent on finding the couple whose erotic risk-taking parallels his own high-wire career.

Soon Andrew and Edith are drawn into Diaz’s life and the vortex of trans-American politics where plunder dictates policy, loyalty is devalued currency, and the future of nations is decided by talk-show appearances and terror.

Genres: Novels

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Like most fiction writers, I write to *discover* what I think, not to to report on what I already know.

Reviews

[J. Alfont Chalmers · Rating 1 out of 5]

This novel has the most disgusting first chapter I have ever read. Since man is the animal who worships, if you don't worship God, you're going to end up worshipping something lower. In Mooney's case, much lower. He's one of those people who thinks any kind of sexual activity at all is inherently holy. The first chapter is about public masturbation.