Translated from the French by Jonathan Sly. Lead character Humbert Klumbert is the millionaire designer of the first 'infinitely pileupable' plastic bucket chair. He is a weird, solitary obsessive-compulsive whose days follow bizarre, pre-established rituals, the novel is told in first person and is set in LA during the Rodney King riots. As the book proceeds, Klumbert's days begin to deviate from the strict order he has maintained so far, and he starts to run into amnesiacs, psychotics and finally the police...as it turns out the young girl he's been watching at the bus-stop everyday has told them about him just before she is found dead...