Audio Book Description:
The hero of Carl Reiner`s nuttyand wonderful nove, Nat Noland, is hard at work on his fifth book, his own versionof Genesis, concentrating onthe relationship between Cain and Abel. While investigating their relationship, he starts to investigate his relation- ship with himself. His doting wife,Glennie, gets worried when she hears him having a loud, heated discussion while he`s alone in the basement. Becausehe is unaware that he is talkingto himself-in two distinct voices-she encourages him to seek help of the famous Viennesepsychiatrist Dr. Frucht.After afew sessions, Dr. Frucht elicitsdescriptions of Nat`s recurringchild- hood dreams and the fact that he never knew his biological parents. In the lobby, when Nat bumps into the lovelyDr. Gertrude Trampleasure, an empathol- ogist, she tells him how much he resembles her old teenage sweetheart, Buddy Keebler: "You could be twins!"With the assistance of a private eye, Nat embarks on a quest to search for this "twin" andhis unknown past, while continuing to work on his biblical no-vel, NNNNNNN.
