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      Bartholomew Fair

      by Eric Basso
      Published
      Jan 1998
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      Pages
      134
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      Fiction. Set in London during a killing heat wave, Eric Basso's 1982 novel, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, unfolds as a terrible cataclysm is about to devastate the city. Begun in the Middle Ages as a religious festival in commemoration of St. Bartholomew the Great, over the centuries Bartholomew Fair passed through several metamorphoses. Now it has gone underground. Its lone survivor recounts the story of the Fair's final, sordid incarnation, and the bizarre odyssey which brings him face-to-face with the unspeakable. Rich in texture and atmosphere, this extraordinary novel is also a stylistic tour de force, in which the history of Bartholomew Fair, whose long-dead voices come to life in these pages, haunts the clandestine activities of its modern-day performers and their obsessed patrons.

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      First Edition Jan 1999 Asylum Arts ISBN13 9781878580245 ISBN10 1878580248
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      Jul 1997 Hi Jinx Press ISBN13 9781576500996 ISBN10 1576500993
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