Name: The Beak Doctor
Author: Eric Basso
ISBN: 9781878580351

Published:

Jan-1999
Formats:

Print
Main Genre:

General Fiction
Pages:

186
Purchase:
Share:

Add to My Lists

Description
Genres

For years, Eric Basso's novella, The Beak Doctor, has sustained a cult reputation among a hard core of avant-garde writers. This collection of short stories begins with a tale of death and hideous resurrection, moves on through a quest for the great horse who rules a subterranean polar kingdom, an atmospheric cycle of short prose pieces, a tragicomic roman noir set in exotic Istanbul (in which the great horse appears in a new guise), and concludes with the harrowing odyssey of a masked man in a fogbound city turned upside down by a plague of sleeping sickness: The Beak Doctor.