Slight Lapse: A Novel

By Robert Chibka

Laurence Paprika trades the bourgeois for the bohemian when he leaves his whitebread world to search for truth in New York City--a quest that entwines the metaphysical hero with a cast of similarly searching characters.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393027740
• ISBN13: 9780393027747
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.0" x 0.6" x 3.0"

Customer Reviews

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Such control over the language! Such a wonderful journey. Coming of age, coming to the big city, comin' round the mountain, coming out of the closet (well not really but the protag is rather sensitive, coming mictio en os. It's too tough for most people to read. Take up the challenge. Check it out. Stick with it once you do. They don't write 'em like this anymore. Or, more correctly, I know of only one writer who still writes 'em like this: Robert Chibka.