While grading an essay on Edgar Allan Poe, an English professor is overwhelmed by recollections of a brilliant, self-destructive friend. The result is W.W., a novel in the form of what purports to be a comment on the student's essay, but is really the professor's feverish, darkly comic autobiography.
While grading an essay on Edgar Allan Poe, an English professor is overwhelmed by recollections of a brilliant, self-destructive friend. The result is W.W., a novel in the form of what purports to be a comment on the student's essay, but is really the professor's feverish, darkly comic autobiography.