What Does Woman Want? by Leary, Timothy - 1976

Dexter, OR: 88 Books, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Quarto. 237pp. Limited first edition of 5000 numbered copies, this copy being un-numbered. A few b&w illustrations. Small circulr sticker ghost to front end paper (sticker laid-in and says "Yes"). Small circular design in ink to upper right of free endpaper. Otherwise a very good or better copy. This is Leary's only novel designed to provide a psychedelic television experience to the reader. There are four ongoing soap-opera mini-dramas. These are interwoven with commercials, special parody announcements, and mini-documentaries. The viewer is encouraged to flip from channel to channel (chapter to chapter).The central plot is the Quixotic saga of an evolutionary agent, Dylan, a confused but sincere minstrel. He has been assigned to a primitive planet in the latter years of the Roaring 20th Century to perform those small but precise jiggles needed to cause chaos in the old, outmoded gene-pools, thus allowing creative individuals to start exploring and settling the next habitats. Dylan's mission is none other than to rediscover what woman really wants.