A Talent for Loving
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A Talent for Loving, published in 1961, was the fourth novel by Richard Condon and one of the books that inspired a brief cult for his strenuously off-beat works.
Title
The title, as is the case in five of Condon's first six books, is derived from the first line of a typical bit of Condonian doggerel that supposedly comes from a fictitious Keener's Manual mentioned in many of his earlier novels:
- The riches I bring you
- Crowding and shoving,
- Are the envy of princes:
- A talent for loving.
- The riches I bring you
The verse is found as an epigraph on a blank page five pages after the title page and four pages before the beginning of the text.[1]
Theme
Characters
Typical Condon quirks and characteristics
References
- ↑ A Talent for Loving; or, The Great Cowboy Race, paperback edition, Ballantine Books, New York, 1978, ISBN 0-345-25767-7