Henry Bean
Henry Bean’s screenplays include Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, and Basic Instinct 2. He wrote and directed the films The Believer and Noise, and collaborated with Chantal Akerman on several of her films. He has written for K Street (HBO) and The OA (Netflix). He has published short fiction in McSweeney’s, Black Clock, and other places. The Nenoquich remains his only novel.
Henry Bean
With a new foreword by the author
“This debut, or better say rebut, is our first masterpiece this decade—and it was written in 1982 . . . A literary phenomenon of the first order . . . Bean’s sentences approach the speed of light without any loss of iridescent precision.” —Vincenzo Barney, Los Angeles Review of Books
An unsung masterpiece squatting in the ashes of the sixties, The Nenoquich is the diary of a seducer hammering on the walls of his own loneliness.