Curtis White's long-awaited return to fiction reminds us that the founder of one of American literature's most vibrant and innovative movements is still the King of transcendental buffoonery. The story begins when a masked man appears in the night at the door of the Marquis, proclaiming a matter of life and death: I stand falsely accused of an atrocity Except he's not, really; he's just trying to get the attention of the Marquis...