Kornwolf - 9780802170163

Tristan Egolf's new novel is a book about the return of an old curse — the Kornwolf, a ferocious werewolf whose nocturnal rampaging becomes increasingly impossible to ignore. Kornwolf takes the reader for a good old-fashioned romp in the stubble — a journey through the slums and honky tundra of rural Pennsylvania, where nothing quite passes for good or bad, sublime or dismal, discrete or brash. And then the monotony breaks. Something — a freak of creation — is running amok in the fields. To solve the mystery, three generations of prodigal sons — a writer and hometown boy who swore he'd never come back to Penn's Woods; a middle-aged former pugilist who runs a decrepit boxing gym; and a misfit, mute, beaten-down Amish boy — are brought together by the light of a blue moon, in a town called Blue Ball. On one level this is a masterfully orchestrated, hilarious, and compelling take on the classic horror yarn, on another, Kornwolf is a social satire of suburban sprawl, closed minds, and all manners and varieties of self-satisfaction — Amish, civilian, or... other — in the best tradition of Tom Robbins and George Saunders.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: Kornwolf
• Lingua: English
• Autore:  Tristan Egolf
• Editore: Black Cat
• Collana: Black Cat (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 09 Gennaio '06
• Genere: FICTION
• Pagine: 378
• Dimensioni mm: 215 x 139 x 31
• ISBN-10: 0802170161
• EAN-13: 9780802170163