Mawrdew Czgowchwz

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Diva Mawrdew Gzgowchwz (pronounced 'Mardu Gorgeous') bursts like the brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious and only the most prefect frivolity can be, James McCourt's entrancing send up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter of a century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master.

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"McCourt is the author of perhaps the best novel about opera." Publishers Weekly


"McCourt makes brave comic choices, delighting in mythic celebrity while dissecting the ways it is made and sustained. Bravo! Encore!" John Lahr



"Bravo, James McCourt, a literary countertenor in the exacting tradition of Firbank and Nabokov, who makes his daringly self-assured debut with this intelligent and very funny book." Susan Sontag

"Mawrdew Czgowchwz is a Zuleika Dobson of the opera world. James McCourt is an ecstatic fabulist, robustly funny and inventive, and touchingly in love with his subject. His novel is both special and precious, in the most honorable senses of those words." Newsweek

"A gloriously flamboyant debut. Take it in spoonfuls and youll find passages to fall in love with. Sooner or later, you may even find yourself reading them aloud to your friends." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

Author Bio

James McCourt was born in 1941. He lives in New York City and spends his summers in Ireland. In addition to Mawrdew Czgowchwz, he is the author of Time Remaining and Kaye Wayfaring in "Avenged". His latest is Delancey's Way, which was published to popular and critical acclaim in 2000. Wayne Koestenbaum is the author of Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon and The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, as well as several collections of poetry and a libretto for the opera Jackie O. His most recent work is the Penguin Lives biography of Andy Warhol.