Illinois State University/fiction Collective, New York 1988 - Hardcover with DJ. 154 pages. Inscribed with humorous note by Don Webb on the title page. Collection of 97 wildly original "Metamorphoses" concerning everything from ancient gods to the White House to I Love Lucy. Unread, nearly as new copy but with some scruffing and one small tear to DJ due shelf wear.

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Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book

�diteur

Illinois St U/Fiction Collective, New York, New York

Date de parution

1988

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0932511171

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780932511171

Reliure

Cloth

Illustrateur

Jeffrey Wilson

�dition

First Edition

�tat de l'article

As New

�tat de la jaquette

Good

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In these postmodernist episodes of high comedy, Don Webb turns Ovid's classic work, The Metamorphosis , on its head. Awarded the 1988 Illinois State University/Fiction Collective Prize through a nationwide fiction comition, Webb's first book of fiction, Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book, explores the theme of change in hitherto unimagined manifestations from the everyday to the mysterious to the miraous. These eight dozen "metamorphoses" are widely funny, profound, and ike change itself always surprising.

With rare originality and breadth, Webb draws upon Egyptian mythology, molear biology, classical poetry, contemporary pop ture, literary theory, Eastern mysticism, and science fiction, composing them into an offbeat fugue on the theme of transformation.

"Metamorphosis No. 39" resurrects the ancient Egyptian gods, Set, Toth, and Osiris, who return to America to mastermind a plot to alter contemporary consciousness. Their scheme includes the broadcast of subliminal archetypal images during returns of "I Love Lucy." In a later metamorphosis, another ancient god Dionysius returns to modern day Atlantic City to recruit winos for a new band of satyrs.

Ancient gods are not the only agents of change. Metamorphosis also spreads to the White House in an episode describing the clandestine life of the president's drug supplier who risks death to satisfy the chief executive's taste for organic hallucinogens.

A hilarious New Age western saga unfolds in "Metamorphosis No.5" W.B. Porter, the "Last of the Singing Cowboys" a hero with a degree in chemical engineering and a proficiency on the sitar foils the Uzi-toting Mendoza gang "tough hombres schooled in the Fourteen Mysteries of Toltec Sorcery" in their attempt to pull a heist on a condo construction project.

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