The Hour Glass: Sixty Fables for This Moment in Time

Title

en_US The Hour Glass: Sixty Fables for This Moment in Time

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US By Carl Japikse

Creator

en_US Japikse, Carl

Contributor

en_US Peyton, Mark

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:33Z

en_US 1997-08

en_US 1984

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1984

Abstract

en_US It is not easy to create fables. Japikse does a creditable job of it here. Some of his stories are forced and some are perhaps best termed mystical. Try, e.g., An Ordinary Man (16) or Amazing Grace (52). Still, a number of the fables are good; Japikse's batting average is way above most people's! He is at his best, I believe, when the resolution of the story is open-ended or polyvalent. Among the best are these: The Fish of God (9); A la Carte (13); The Great Scheme (20); Open Sesame (63-4); A Taste of Divinity (75); The Panic (85); Snakebitten (89); Tales of Long Ago (95); and The Masterpiece (97). The twenty-one full-page black-and-white illustrations are simple. Typical of them are The Fish of God (8) and The Hour Glass (105). My copy from Candy Books came containing a clipping of an article on the author from the Upper Arlington News (apparently near Columbus, since there are references to OSU) of February 27, 1985.

Identifier

en_US 0898040450

en_US 4054 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79392

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Ariel Press: The Publishing House of Light

en_US Columbus, OH

Subject

en_US PS3560.A5365 H6 1984

en_US Carl Japikse

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole