This novel's narrator ascribes happy accidents, such as a payphone refunding all his coins at the end of a difficult call, to a cosmic force he calls "McFate.
This novel's narrator ascribes happy accidents, such as a payphone refunding all his coins at the end of a difficult call, to a cosmic force he calls "McFate." One of its characters delivers a death sentence parodying Eliot's poem "Ash Wednesday" that begins "Because you took advantage of a sinner", before killing a pornographic film director at the Duk Duk Ranch. This novel is framed as a "Confession of a (*) White Widowed Male," edited by the psychologist John Ray. In this novel, the Enchanted Hunters hotel, which is where its title character first seduces the narrator, coincidentally bears the inverted name of the Clare Quilty-written play she stars in. For 10 points, name this novel about the nymphet-obsessed Humbert Humbert, written by Vladimir Nabokov.
This novel's narrator ascribes happy accidents, such as a payphone refunding all his coins at the end of a difficult call, to a cosmic force he calls "McFate.
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