Prometheus Rebound — James Trivers

Prometheus Rebound is a three-pronged narrative. Henri Vanderveer, a struggling gossip columnist, forges his way through the mid-Seventies celebrity culture in search of the scoop that will make his career-only to find that the story he was looking for will expose his own family. Paul Manship, the renown Art Deco sculptor, searches for a vision that will be the focus of Rockefeller Center. In the hunt for his inspiration he discovers the intricacies of his psychosexual underbelly. And then there is Prometheus, the punished and chained Titan who daily has his liver eaten out by vultures because he stole the fire from the heavens and brought it to earth. This is the price he pays so that we mortals can live in a civilized manner.