The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy & the King of Scarecrows: Two Novels/2 Book in 1

Culbert, Steven

ISBN 10: 1880909030 / ISBN 13: 9781880909034

Published by Baskerville Pub, 1993

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. Seller Inventory # S_405822076

Synopsis:

In the first tale, a hitchhiker called Mott visits the town of Fate, and in the second, a scarecrow travels with a group of human companions

From Publishers Weekly: Culbert's debut consists of two short novels, thematically linked by their characters' search through a darkened dreamscape for some sort of sanctuary. In the first, Kenjii Mott, a solitary traveler in a world where pecans and acorns are the only currency, loses his backpack full of belongings when he reaches the small town of Fate and stops at the home of a mysterious woman called Amy Survivor, obviously patterned after Keats's la belle dame sans merci. The second novella concerns The Scarecrow, a dead man who has joined a traveling freak show. These stories are not altogether bleak; rather silly and uneventful, they read like Kafka "lite." But Culbert's tone is unpleasantly self-satisfied. His invented world is altogether too cute to convince, and the writing is sometimes embarrassingly inept: "The moment of violence in the faded day faded like a fart." Only readers on a similar wavelength will enjoy these postmodern fables.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy & the King...
Publisher: Baskerville Pub
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good