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Original paperback edition.THE BOOK YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Twenty-five men and one beautiful woman got together to produce the most sensational bestseller of the year. Naked Came the Stranger "COMBINES THE TORRID PROSE OF HAROLD ROBBINS, JACQUELINE SUSANN AND A HOST OF LESSER FIGURES. NO WONDER. FOR, AS IT TURNS OUT, PENELOPE ASHE IS A PSEUDONYM FOR TWENTY-FIVE NEWSDAY WRITERS." NEWSWEEKhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_StrangerNaked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at the American literary culture of its time. Though credited to "Penelope Ashe," it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady.McGrady's intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book fulfilled the authors' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book's popularity.Mike McGrady was convinced that popular American literaryculture had become so base—with the best-seller lists dominated by th

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Author

Ashe, Penelope

Publisher

Dell

Published

1964

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Rating

3 / 5 (167 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14