A Fine Madness

Elliott Baker

Original title: A fine madness

earliest edition we have, 1960 Penguin Publishing Group, 1960

Samson Shillitoe is a genius, a poet and carpet cleaner who ends up getting writer's block, gets into a series of disasters with his wife, but keeps on smiling until he dallies with a psychiatrist's wife.

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A Fine Madness paperback · 2005 · AuthorHouse · 308 pages · 9781420813845
A Fine Madness edition · 1986 · W W Norton & Co Inc · 1 pages · 9780393303957
Fine Madness edition · 1960 · Penguin Publishing Group · 9780451026101

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