LIVRE RARE OU DE COLLECTION (EDITION 1980)

Welcome to the life and times of Alexander Frapkin, world-renowned author and ladies’ man — in his own mind, at least. In reality, Frapkin’s life is a rapidly-unraveling mess: his publishers won’t pay him, he’s forced to marry someone who detests him, and his books are so raunchy that Mafia thugs decide to teach him a lesson he’ll never forget. This comic masterpiece chronicles the hapless Frapkin’s zany misadventures in 1970s New York, where anything is possible...except for a dull moment!

LEN LEVINSON is the author of 83 novels written under 22 pseudonyms, published originally by Bantam, Dell, Fawcett, Harper, Jove, Charter Diamond, Zebra, Belmont-Tower, and Signet, among others. He has been acclaimed a “trash genius” by Paperback Fanatic magazine, and his books have sold an estimated two-and-one-half million copies.

Born 1935 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he served on active duty in the U.S. Army 1954–1957, graduated from Michigan State University class of 1961, and relocated to New York City where he worked in advertising and public relations for ten years before becoming a full-time writer of novels.

He left NYC in 2003, residing first in Aurora, Illinois, and since 2004 in a small town (population 3,100) in rural northwest Illinois, surrounded by corn and soybean fields, way out on the Great American Prairie.

He has married twice, but presently lives alone with his MacBook Pro and a library of approximately three thousand books, which he studies assiduously in his never-ending effort to understand the meaning of life itself.