"[A] hilariously satirical debut novel. Miller, Lawrence, and Genet stop by like proud ancestors… But it's a more recent generation of mischievous deviant writers (Nicholson Baker, Mary Gaitskill) that truly looms large — Erotomania's closest predecessor might be Baker's The Fermata. [An] ambitious book… [A] biting satire." — Zach Baron, Village Voice"Sex is familiar, but it's perennial, and Levy makes it fresh." — Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Levy seems to have an eye for detail for all that is absurd, commonly human, and uniquely American." — Beth Harrington, Bookslut"It's a great book, written with flawless verve by a tremendous fictioneer and thinker, and it deserves glory. A classic." — Andre Codrescu, Exquisite Corpse"[Erotomania] can just as easily be a bookend to the beautifully nuanced prose of Milan Kundera as it can be a long-version story for a nudie mag minus the accompanying photographs. It's all in the context — as it is with most relationships." — Quarterly Conversation"Erotomania wields a comedic punch that makes it, above all, a fun novel to read." — Nerve.comErotomania is an absurdist portrait of a modern-day romance. It follows James and Monica from their early days as couple that is forced to move into a nuclear fall-out bunker so their explosive sex life doesn’t physically harm their neighbors, down the long journey to marriage counseling.

"The funniest American novel since Sam Lipsyte's The Ask."— Village Voice"A ribald chronicle of [a] 60-something Manhattan accountant, who's come to Rio de Janeiro as a sex tourist. [A] fever dream of a novel."— New York Times Book Review"Levy delivers a visceral blend of hilarious satire and study in human sexuality, taking us on a deviant tour of Rio."— Interview MagazineI have come to regard almost everything that happens in human life as a form of therapy.So muses Kenny Cantor, always dapper in his seersucker suit from the Brooks Brothers 346 collection. Kenny is a CPA, amateur psychoanalyst, and sex-tourist vacationing in Rio when he gets waylaid at a psychoanalytic conference.What ensues is a provocative journey that merges sex and psychoanalysis through Rio's tawdry netherworld of Susan Sontag-quoting denizens as only an incendiary voice like Francis Levy could imagine.