Screen is Barry N. Malzberg’s daring and controversial debut novel about a guy who can only just obtain sexual fulfillment by projecting himself into fantasies evoked with the cinema.

In the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov, Malzbergdraws his readers on the precipice of rationality into a realm where dreamsare real-a realm where the hero, a humble investigator for the brand new York CityWelfare Department, finds himself wedded to Sophia Loren, seducing ElizabethTaylor, and seduced by Brigitte Bardot-all in one tortured weekend.