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Review ''Essential is the word.'' --Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk Trilogy ''Malzberg's books, in their tortured self-awareness, are primarily about writing: its technical difficulties and moral pitfalls, its potential to cheapen or calcify, its temptation to fraudulence or ventriloquism, the insisted-on inadequacy of language as an excuse for not being a less recursive or less involuted writer, and so on.''   --Paris Review, praise for the author  Product Description [Read by Stefan Rudnicki] Barry N. Malzberg's daring and controversial debut novel. In the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov, Barry N. Malzberg draws his readers over the precipice of rationality into a realm where dreams are real - a realm in which the hero, a humble investigator for the New York City Welfare Department, can obtain sexual satisfaction only by projecting himself into fantasies evoked by the cinema. He finds himself married to Sophia Loren, seducing Elizabeth Taylor, and seduced by Brigitte Bardot - all in one tortured weekend.   About the Author Barry N. Malzberg is a writer and editor of numerous science fiction anthologies and magazines. The author of more than 50 books and more than 250 short stories, he won the first John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the Year's Best Science Fiction, has won two Locus Awards for essay collections, and has been a finalist for Hugo and Nebula awards.