Memoirs and Stories of a Madman

About the Book

George Gilbert's darkly funny novel, Memoirs and Stories of a Madman, is a story within a story of a former feature writer for newspapers who has fallen from grace, ending up a god-forsaken cab driver in San Francisco. His only escape is writing stories about his alter ego, Wolf, a lecher and drunken ne'er do-well, whose many adventures take him to Mexico. There he meets a bevy of sexually insatiable babes and an American movie producer whose appetites are even more prodigious. Along the way, Wolf has a number of encounters with John Wayne, Cary Grant, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and other immortals. Memoirs and Stories of a Madman is uproariously entertaining, a seductive sex farce told with acid wit, imagination, and high style. It also offers an uncompromising look at a decaying society at the end of the millennium in the United States.

About the Author

George Gilbert was a prize-winning reporter for major newspapers in London and the United States, including The San Francisco Chronicle. In his colorful career, Gilbert got drunk with John Wayne in an heroic all-night binge, and had cocktails with Richard Nixon, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, and Audrey Hepburn.