An Old Fable; A New Fable

Title

en_US An Old Fable; A New Fable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US #15 of 50

en_US Diane Weintraub

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Weintraub, Diane

Date

2016-01-22T21:18:06Z

en_US 2014-09

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-22T21:18:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000

Abstract

en_US This is a fascinating double book in which the back cover of one book is joined back-to-back with the upside-down back cover of the other book. Open it one way and it gives you an old fable; open it the other and you have a new fable. The old fable is characterized as Asian. Some of us may know it from Tony DiMello. Several rounds occur starting with a farmer purchasing a fine new horse and his neighbor saying that he was lucky. Perhaps. Then the horse runs away. Unlucky. Perhaps. The horse returns and brings many other horses along. Lucky. Perhaps. The farmer's son rides the horse, falls, and breaks a leg. Unlucky. Maybe. Soldiers come through and conscript but do not take the son. The new fable applies that old fable to contemporary times as a man invents a great new product in his garage, only to see it stolen. He sues and after a long battle wins all his competitor's assets, only to lose everything in a stock-market crash. This fable ends as the reader turns a page to find three endings of the story that unfold from their base on the page. The three endings are quite different! Each front cover has an inlaid bar of patterned white material.

Identifier

en_US 10422 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75039

Publisher

en_US Iron Bear Press

en_US San Diego, CA

Subject

en_US Mini PN982.O43 2000 See all items with this value

en_US One fable applied See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole