All Knowing, All Merciful and Other Stories - Softcover
These eight short stories are full of a dark, sometimes gruesome humor uncovering the tragic irony of the world in which we live. James Thompson repels convention as he shares a critical insight into modern culture and its myths, taking readers around the globe through past and future, and to fantastic new worlds while engaging a greater and deeper truth than most will date to even imagine.
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Warning:
About the Author:
For Your Protection
Be advised, the eight stories contained in this volume have not been approved for your consumption. Full of insane lies and fevered gibberish, they are to be regarded as shameful, unauthorized aberrations, and fall into the category of Harmful Printed Material.
Do not heed the author when he offers to tell you: "tales that will tickle appetites both simple and complex." Ignore his invitation to: "taste dishes that slake hungers known and hungers unknown."
He will ask you to bear witness to a crime that has no name. To watch an Age of Heroes go hideously awry. To follow the winds of death as they grind a nation into bones and silence. To see the course of the French Revolution decided by a small dry stick. He may entice you to enjoy a stay in a prison as wide as the world, yet as narrow as an old man's grudge. Or to bathe in entropy as it devours the Universe, starting with your grandfather.
Do not read any of these falsehoods, and above all do not heed the author's ravings. He will be dealt with shortly.
America's least-known, least-beloved author, Mr. Thomson has been thrown out of such distinguished academic institutions as DePaul University, Amherst College and the University of Illinois. A former resident of Alaska, he continues his life's jagged, downward track in the nation's capitol, Washington DC, where he finds to his relief that his odds of being eaten by wolves have been substantially reduced. His stories have appeared in such widely read publications as The Blue Review and The Flummery Press, where they have brought him exactly as much acclaim and recognition as one might expect.
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- PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1587360012
- ISBN 13 9781587360015
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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