The ecstatic, or, Homunculus a novel

ISBN: 9780307428486 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307428486 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (272 p.)
Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2003.

LaValle, Victor D. 1972- (Author).

Summary: Something is wrong with Anthony--our 318-pound hero--and it's getting worse. A monster has caught his uncle and his mother; now it wants Anthony. Mental illness has been transmitted through his family's blood. The three women in his life--his mother, younger sister, and grandmother--find him naked and disoriented in his off-campus college apartment and take him home to Queens, each determined to fix him in her own peculiar way. But his presence soon turns their house into a semisuburban asylum.