The Sapbucket Genius

Corrupter of women

This is the story of Cheney Gorson, a poet whose fury and genius creates a tempest in the lives of everyone close to him.

He seduces his best friend's wife, who nearly wrecks her marriage in a guilt-driven flight..

He drives his own wife into vengeful promiscuity...

And when a sudden onslaught of fame shoots him from his dilapidated home in Vermont to the leading cultural cities of Europe and America, his deterioration becomes complete. Lost in sexual excesses, befogged by liquor, he stumbles towards extinction.