Item
Weird Contemporary Fables
- Title
- en_US Weird Contemporary Fables
- Description
- en_US Second printing
- en_US By Alvin Fixler
- Creator
- en_US Fixler, Alvin See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:55:16Z
- en_US 2008-10
- en_US 2008
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:55:16Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2008
- Abstract
- en_US Here are 197 pages of fables that last about a page apiece. The beginning T of C takes more than three pages. There is nothing but fables here. I read the first eight or so. Some are curious. Are some angry? The best work by a surprising shift of categories. An artist who has sold a piece of bogus art with no picture answers a complaint by viewing the hung picture and saying that it has been hung upside down (Artist, 5). There are rather frequent typos. The back cover's fable is a good choice. A hissing cockroach has trouble hissing. He rattles, whistles, clicks, and groans. He goes to the doctor and has an expensive surgery. He gets rid of the rattling, whistling, clicking, and groaning. Unfortunately, he also got rid of the hissing. One of the book's idiosyncrasies is that any fable continuing onto the following page has its title repeated as the beginning of the first line with (CONTINUED) added. Weird may be the best depiction of these little vignettes. This copy is the integral copy with all 219 pages. See a separate listing for the original defective copy with only 197 pages.
- Identifier
- en_US 9781425161163
- en_US 6580 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Trafford Publishing
- en_US Victoria, BC, Canada
- Subject
- en_US PN982.F58 2008a See all items with this value
- en_US Alvin Fixler See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books