The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy and The King of Scarecrows

Steven Culbert

ISBN 10: 1880909030 / ISBN 13: 9781880909034

Published by Baskerville, Dallas, 1993

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Baskerville, 1993. First ed. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket that has some slight edge wear. F4000. Seller Inventory # 5914

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy and The ...

Publisher: Baskerville, Dallas

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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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.
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