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If Spikes was a breathless ride, Bibliophilia is a veritable roller coaster, starting with the almost novel-length title pice whose unlikely protagonist is a postmenopausal university librarian pressed into reluctant duty as a sex cop, trolling the stacks for any students intent on illicit coupling among the classics.

The stories are equally zany and wide-ranging, in settings as diverse as southern Louisiana and North Africa, and featuring, among others: a hair scientist who is going bald; a mother who hands her toddler to a mugger while she rummages for money in her purse; and a nightwatchman in a used-hubcap yard. What the fictions have in common is an astute mixture of comedy and pathos: taking a seemingly ludicrous premise, Griffith manages, in some surprising way, to render it poignant.

BIBLIOPHILIA confirms what the Houston Chronicle proclaimed, that "Michael Griffith is one of the finest young writers in America."
- Michael Griffith is a major talent. Reviewers of Spikes compared Griffith to Nabokov, Saul Bellow, and E. L. Doctorow--but funnier. His fiction is high quality without being too literary, a rare combination.
- Humor sells. Zany humor sells even better.
- Griffith's debut novel, Spikes, garnered an amazing number of reviews coast to coast. Expect equally wide and positive reviews for Bibliophilia.

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