A playful, complex novel of banter between servant and master.
In this playfully complex novel of banter between master and servants, Russell Edson creates an allegorical narrative in which forbidden sexual desire meets rigid law and order.
Publication date: July 1, 1992
Format: Trade Paper
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Page count: 125 pages
ISBN: 9781566890021
Russell Edson (1935-2014) was the author of The Song of Percival Peacock. He was widely credited for his inventive mastery of the prose poem in past works such as The Reason Why the Closet-Man Is Never Sad (Wesleyan) and The Inituitive Journey and Other Works (Harper), and received a Guggenheim fellowship for his acclaim.
“The readers of this exquisite novella by the master poet Russell Edson will surely savor the stubborn dignity and mad pride that drives this cast of dotty characters forever deeper into their hopeless plight. An original masterpiece not to be missed.”
—James Tate
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