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Joel-Peter, an itinerant preacher, and a dark gray cat arrive in Point Vestal, a cursed town on the edge of the Pacific, where ghosts walk among the living and time behaves strangely. By the author of Street.
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About the Author
Jack Cady teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.
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In this satirical and elusive broadside at what he admits is a version of his hometown of Port Townsend, Wash., Cady (Street), who's won both a Nebula and a World Fantasy Award for his dark fantasy yarns, creates a curious pastiche that echoes unequal parts of The Divine Comedy, Alice in Wonderland, Pilgrim's Progress and Don Quixote. The operative conceit here is that five citizens of "Point Vestal"?a bookseller, a bartender, an antiques expert, a retired pastor and a newspaper editor?are writing this book, a history of the town. But that's not an easy task, since Point Vestal is a very strange place, overpopulated by ghosts and refusing to be fixed in time: the narrative opens in a year that is both 1973 and 1893. This blurring of dates honors the cataclysmic year that Joel-Andrew, a defrocked Episcopalian priest, came to town, eventually to confront August Starling, the local reincarnation of evil. Featuring a disenfranchised physician, a dancing cat fluent in seven languages, a magical Presbyterian Parsonage (with an all-seeing tower, a personality and an unruly wanderlust) and many extras, the story line winds its eccentric way toward a microcosmic Armageddon. While Cady's first three novels?The Well, The Jonah Watch and McDowell's Ghost?remain his best known, they are also his most traditional. His subsequent experimentation with horror forms, as in this caustic fable, may not win him a huge new readership, but it is admirable and worthy of note.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0312135742
- ISBN 13 9780312135744
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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