Lizard World - Softcover

Bazes, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604890770 ISBN 13: 9781604890778

Publisher: Livingston Press (AL), 2011

Synopsis

A dentist from New Jersey, marooned at midnight in the Florida swamps, makes the mistake of falling into the clutches of a hilariously depraved family of amateur surgeons devoted to a 17th-century libertine whose discovery of an elixir has kept his evil presence alive for the past three-hundred years.

About this title

About the Author

Terry Richard Bazes is a graduate of Columbia College and has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of GOLDSMITH'S RETURN (White Pine Press, 1995) and and LIZARD WORLD (Livingston Press, 2011). His personal essays and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, including The Washington Post Book World, Newsday, Columbia Magazine, Travelers' Tales: Spain, Lost Magazine and Evergreen Review.

From the Back Cover

"A certain noble earl had need of a handsome, young, female carcass -- for which specimen I would be excellently paid provided it be fresh and that the feet were shapely and unblemished . . . . By nightfall, when I set about my work, it was raining. Gratefully, this inclemency of weather favoured the expedition of my efforts: for not a single hackney passed to retard the steady progress of my digging. Indeed, so quickly did I work, that I had broke into the box, bagged my quarry, replaced the soil, and rode off in my cart, ere I bethought myself to see whether the feet of the poor creature would answer the intent of my commission."

Thus begins the long association of a young medical doctor and his hilariously depraved American descendants with the notorious Earl of Griswold, a 17th-century libertine and connoisseur of smells whose discovery of an elixir in the Florida swamps will keep his evil presence alive for the next three-hundred years.


"Lizard World is the best novel I've read in eons. It feels more like a found manuscript than a work of the imagination. Like all great fiction the novel takes the reader home; this journey leads into the darkest caverns of the self. The story will make you weak with laughter. But it will also make you whole."
-- Ben Cheever, author of Strides.


"The command of the language of the period is astonishing and the prose manages to be racy and vivid as well as convincing."
-- Charles Palliser, author of The Quincunx

"Terry Richard Bazes pushes us into a bizarre world that vacillates between the past and present -- and is told by a writer whose imagination seems to have no bounds."
-- Barney Rosset, publisher of the Evergreen Review and founder of Grove Press

Edition details

• Publisher: Livingston Press (AL)
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604890770
• ISBN 13: 9781604890778
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254