Bibliographical Description
87.10.W039: Prager – Clea & Zeus Divorce
[within compartment 176 x 104 mm] Emily Prager | CLEA & ZEUS | DIVORCE | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK
136 leaves, pp. [10] 1–2 3-259 [3]
A Vintage Contemporaries Original, October 1987, First Edition
Contents: π1a author photo with excerpt, π1b blank, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-259 Clea & Zeus Divorce, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Frank Morris; interior author photo by Ralph DePas.
Copyright: © 1987. ISBN: 0-394-75591-X. Price: $6.95. Clea & Zeus Divorce was first published by Vintage Contemporaries 1987.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) Prager is a writer of surrealistic vision and biting wit. Quirky and fearless…laced with great gusts of wit and humor. – San Francisco Chronicle
- She addressed the audience. “Duck and cover,” she said. “We’re getting a divorce.” The audience gasped. “No, it’s fine, really,” she reassured them. “It’ll probably be like Scenes from a Marriage: ten years from now we’ll be married to other people but we’ll be meeting secretly in a motel. Don’t worry.” – [Excerpt]
- It happened because of an infidelity….the question is whether it was his or hers. You never really know. / After ten years of marriage and acclaim, the great Clea and Zeus are divorcing—and since all their life together has been turned into art, so will they dramatize their divorce. In their last TV special, they enact their glittering history and stage their final breakup. It is a brilliant performance that hauntingly mimics the strange life duet of this famous pair: the monstrous crime that chases Zeus deeper and deeper into laudanum dreams, the terrible trail that leads Clea to a leper colony in the South Pacific, their bizarre entourage of Seven Golden Lieutenants, a Red Chinese poet and a Xhosa witch doctoress, and, overall, Clea’s mad obsession that their show will be preempted by an atomic blast.