Originally published in 1986, this new edition returns to print a classic, influential work of American fiction. ""My Amputations, Clarence Major's fifth novel, is an explosively rich book about a man pursued by his shadow. Its protagonist is either a desperate ex-con who has become convinced that he is an important American novelist or a desperate American novelist who has become convinced that he-and most of what passes for literary life on three continents-is a con. Clarence Major has split the difference between Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Herman Melville's