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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" begins one chapter of critically acclaimed Lee Siegel's new novel, Love and the Incredibly Old Man. "In the beginning" starts another. What else can a novelist do when hired as a ghostwriter by an elderly, irascible, conquistador-costumed man claiming to be the 540-year-old Juan Ponce de León? The fantastic life of that legendary explorer-inventor of rum, cigars, Coca-Cola, and popcorn-is the frame for Siegel's fourth chronicle of love, lies, luck, loss, and labia. Summoned with cold hard cash and a pinch of flattery, a professor and novelist named Lee Siegel finds himself in Eagle Springs, Florida, attempting to give form to the life of the man who, contrary to popular and historical opinion, did indeed find the Fountain of Youth. Spending humid days listening to the romantic ramblings of the old man and sleepless nights doubting yet trying to craft these reminiscences into a narrative that will satisfy the literary aspirations of his subject, Siegel the ghostwriter spins an improbable tale filled with Native Americans, insatiable monarchs, philandering cantors, deliriously passionate nuns, delicate actresses, androgynous artists, and deceptions small and large. For de León, and for Siegel too, centuries of conquest and colonialism, fortune and identity, are all refracted through the memories of the conquistador's lovers, each and every one of them adored "more than any other woman ever." Comic, melancholic, lusty, and fully engaged with the act of invention, whether in love or on the page, Love and the Incredibly Old Man continues the real Lee Siegel's exuberant exploration of that sentiment which Ponce de León confesses has "transported me to the most joyous heights, plunged me to the most dismal depths, and dropped me willy-nilly and dumbfounded at all places in between."

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Ponce de León, Juan, --- De León, Juan Ponce, --- León, Juan Ponce de, --- ghostwriter, novelist, immortality, immortal, conquistador, juan ponce de leon, fountain of youth, explorer, native americans, indigenous, invention, rum, cigars, popcorn, coca cola, florida, eagle springs, sex, nuns, conquest, colonialism, masculinity, seduction, romance, androgyny, fortune, identity, lovers, fiction, spain, religion, conversion, queen isabelle. --- Ponce de Leon, Juan,

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Indic wit and humor --- History and criticism.

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Essayist Siegel is known for passionately arguing contrarian points of view, which is why he's the perfect person to write a critical book about the Web that has almost nothing to do with technology and everything to do with what it's doing to the people who use it. Siegel forces readers to radically rethink a familiar medium, arguing that the Web and complementary developments--from reality television to the emergence of business prophets like Malcolm Gladwell--are giving rise to a new and malevolent mass culture, an "electronic mob," that threatens to overwhelm long-held concepts of humanity, democracy, and the individual. In making this argument, Siegel offers up startling insights about all aspects of culture--from American Idol to futurism, film techniques to Internet dating--that reveal hidden connections and dilemmas, providing a fresh and provocative vision of how our world is changing.--From publisher description.

Information technology --- Cyberspace --- Internet --- Subculture --- Popular culture --- Computers and civilization --- Popular Culture --- Social aspects

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Jayadeva, 12th cent. Gÿitagovinda. --- Love in literature.

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Acteurs --- Comedians --- Marx, Groucho,