Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book
Don Webb
Sold by JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since April 11, 2018
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since April 11, 2018
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketIllinois State University/fiction Collective, New York 1988 - Hardcover with DJ. 154 pages. Inscribed with humorous note by Don Webb on the title page. Collection of 97 wildly original "Metamorphoses" concerning everything from ancient gods to the White House to I Love Lucy. Unread, nearly as new copy but with some scruffing and one small tear to DJ due shelf wear.
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"Metamorphosis No. 39" resurrects the ancient Egyptian gods, Set, Toth, and Osiris, who return to America to mastermind a plot to alter contemporary consciousness. Their scheme includes the broadcast of subliminal archetypal images during returns of "I Love Lucy." In a later metamorphosis, another ancient god—Dionysius—returns to modern day Atlantic City to recruit winos for a new band of satyrs. Ancient gods are not the only agents of change. Metamorphosis also spreads to the White House in an episode describing the clandestine life of the president's drug supplier—who risks death to satisfy the chief executive's taste for organic hallucinogens.
A hilarious New Age western saga unfolds in "Metamorphosis No.5" W.B. Porter, the "Last of the Singing Cowboys"— a hero with a degree in chemical engineering and a proficiency on the sitar—foils the Uzi-toting Mendoza gang—"tough hombres schooled in the Fourteen Mysteries of Toltec Sorcery"—in their attempt to pull a heist on a condo construction project.
This theme of transformation extends even to the farming narrative of UOEB itself, which at one point unexpectedly becomes the diary of an Englishwoman who is held captive in a potting shed by a maniacal pastor.
These variations on a theme are sometimes hilarious, sometimes cryptic, sometimes curiously moving—and always disturbingly provocative. With his hat off to Ovid, Don Webb pulls together high-spirited wit, eclecticism, and sheer inventiveness to make Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book a richly comic, absorbing, and singular work of a new order.
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