Archie

by Donald Newlove

Archie, the pet pup of lady-killer Billy Archibald, a retired restauranteur now turning ninety, has fallen ill. Archie is even older than his master! Now he must be taken to Kathmandu for treatment. As it happens, Billy has joined his buddy Sidney to shuck a sex musk (BALLS for Men), this being the world's greatest sex musk ever. While Billy's latest wife, Irene Dunneskaya, an opera singer, rehearshes new work, Billy is joined by his old lover Rocky in search of customers for the sex musk on the very mountain where Archie will be treated by the very, very, very old High Lama, John Feelgood.

200 pages, Paperback

Published July 30, 2018

About the author

Donald Newlove was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1928, and currently lives in New York City's Greenwich Village. As a reporter, book reviewer, and short story writer, his work appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, Evergreen Review, and The Saturday Review. His first novel, The Painter Gabriel (1970), was hailed by Time Magazine as "one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent, and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Newlove is the author of several other novels, a series of books on the art of writing, and the critically acclaimed memoir, Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers (1981).