Terry Southern is an acclaimed satirist of American culture, the writer responsible for Candy and the screenplay of Dr. Strangelove. In Flash and Filigree, his first novel, he delivers yet another outrageously funny commentary on the dark side of our national life. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Mr. Felix Treevly, who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of hilarious and increasingly weird situations, which, with the assistance of a drunken private detective, a mad judge, a car crash, and a hashish party, finally drive him to mayhem. A wild whirlwind of a novel, Flash and Filigree is a work of comic genius from one of the wittiest writers of our time.
- ISBN10 0802134300
- ISBN13 9780802134301
- Publish Date 29 February 1996 (first published 21 March 1974)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avalon Travel Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 204
- Language English