First edition, first printing. Good in good DJ. Top edge of boards faded from sun. DJ has a 1/2 in closed tear, a couple of cat claw punctures (bad cat!), and edge wear. Binding is solid; pages clean and unmarked. Good reading copy.

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Title: The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy & the King of Scarecrows: Two Novels/2 Book in 1
Publisher: Baskerville Pub, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1880909030
ISBN 13: 9781880909034
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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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

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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.

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