Description: "The unnamed narrator of this brilliantly conceived farce, a struggling poet, finds that his life takes a dramatic turn when he meets and falls in love with enigmatic young Maria Perpetua, a brainy and seductive food writer composing an encyclopedic masterpiece on spinach. Their ill-fated romance, and the consequences of her sudden rise to cult fame, form the core of a mock memoir related in a highly original fictional voice."--
Brief description: Thom Palmer lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Florentine Papers is his first novel. He is also the author of a second, Desire.