Shamp of the City-Solo (Revised)
Jaimy Gordon
(Author)
James Aitchison
(Illustrator)
Description
Here is one of the finest comic novels to appear in the last half century, deserving comparison with that of the best of Flann O'Brien, Angela Carter, or Witold Gombrowicz. Upon its first publication in 1974, this novel quickly became an underground sensation.This "fantasy novel" occurs in what may be thought of as a dystopian parallel-universe, a world recognizable to ours but set in an odd remove where the hero's hunger for fame shows its mythic origin. Hughbury Shamp is the reluctant teen-age hero who becomes apprenticed to three "masters" at the West Poolesville Depot on the Sumpsky Prospect, across the River Sump from Big Yolk, the City-Solo. His education involves a series of preposterous and hilarious misadventures with the likes of the impresario Sergei Shipoff, Dr. Harry Analarge, and the World Friar Tapsvine, all the while he is being toward stardom as prize-winning speaker at the murderously competitive Arslevering Ox-Roast. Includes an introduction by the author.
Product Details
Price
$12.00
$11.16
Publisher
McPherson
Publish Date
October 01, 1993
Pages
197
Dimensions
5.63 X 8.5 X 0.66 inches | 0.64 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780929701349
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Keith Waldrop, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has published more than a dozen works each of original poetry and translations. His first book, A Windmill Near Calvary, was shortlisted for the 1968 National Book Award. Other books include The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems, The House Seen from Nowhere, and a translation of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.