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

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy & the King of Scarecrows: Two Novels/2 Book in 1
• Publisher: Baskerville Pub
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880909030
• ISBN 13: 9781880909034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 16.51W x 24.13H x 2.54D centimeters 16.51 centimeters width by 24.13 centimeters height by 2.54 centimeters depth
• Weight: 521.631 grams

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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

Reviews

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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