The Sub (First Edition)

Thomas M. Disch

ISBN 10: 0679442928 / ISBN 13: 9780679442929

Published by Knopf, New York, 1999

About this Item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap. Black cloth over gray boards, silver spine lettering. 286 pp. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A pristine unread copy. Octavo. A darkly comic novel about a substitute teacher's descent into violent revenge against his students and community. The fourth and final novel in Disch's Supernatural Minnesota horror series, following "The Businessman" (1984), "The M.D." (1991), and "The Priest" (1994). Disch, also celebrated for "Camp Concentration" and "334," published one further novel, "The Word of God," in 2008.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sub (First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679442928
• ISBN 13: 9780679442929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

Following The Businessman, The M.D., and The Priest, Thomas M. Disch, heralded by Newsweek as "the most formidably gifted unfamous American writer," now continues his masterful series of horror-fantasy novels set in his own "supernatural Minnesota."

At the very moment substitute teacher Diana Turney recovers memories of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, she finds herself weilding a potent brand of witchcraft: the Circe-like ability to turn people into their totemic animals. But once she unleashes these exhilarating matamorphoses on the citizens of the small hamlet of Leech Lake, she learns that she has not been given these powers so much as she has been given to them; that others, including her enemies, have similar gifts; that she has become the conduit of her ghastly father's evil energies, long dormant but now sprung to life; and that despite her unearthly gifts, escape this time might prove impossible.

A work of fiendishly pleasurable plotting and prose, The Sub weaves a myriad number of strands—including New Age, Native American, and fundamentalist thinking—into a tapestry that is ethically devious, blackly comic, and increasingly horrifying.

About the Author

Thomas M. Disch is the author of twelve previous novels, including such classic works of science fiction as Camp Concentration and 334, both of which have been reissued in Vintage paperback. He lives in Manhattan and in Sullivan County, New York.