This is the third edition of one of the finest comic novels to appear in the last half century, a book that has been compared with the very best of Flann OBrien, Angela Carter, and Witold Gombrowicz. Appearing first in 1974, Shamp of the City-Solo quickly became an underground sensation. This “fantasy” novel takes place in a dystopian parallel universe, a world set at an odd remove where the heros hunger for fame displays its mythic origin. Hughbury Shamp is the reluctant teenager who becomes apprenticed to three “masters” at the West Poolesville Depot on the Sumpsky Prospect, across the River Sump from Big Yolk, the city-solo. His education proceeds through various misadventures with the likes of impresario Sergei Shipoff, Dr. Harry Analarge, and the World-Friar Tapsvine, all the while he is being propelled toward stardom as the breakfast speaker at the murderously competitive Arslevering Ox Roast. The writing is simply extraordinarya style that seems born of Lawrence Sterne and Djuna Barnes, with sidelong glances at Samuel Becketts Watt, Marcus Aurelius, and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. With her very first novel, Jaimy Gordon managed that almost impossible feat: a novel of lasting consequence.

Shamp of the City Solo

Literature & Fiction

Gordon, Jaimy

United States

Treacle Pr

Shamp of the City-Solo

Likely Stories: A Collection of Untraditional Fiction

This 1981 anthology of six long stories, novellas, and extracts from novels provides a valuable overview of contemporary fiction by some of today's most adventurous writers. It is an especially useful text on post-Modern fiction for college courses, and a good sampling of quite a few books which subsequently appeared from McPherson & Company. The pieces included here are: "Snow" by Ascher/Straus; "The Sale of What Remains" by Frederick Ted Castle, from his novel, Anticipation; "Brothers of the Tiger" by Emilio De Grazia; "Oh Brother" by J. Eigo; "Russian Tales" by Robert Kelly, from his out-of-print collection, Cat Scratch Fever; and "Sheep" by Pamela Zoline, from her collection, The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories.

MCPHERSON

Literary

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Brakhage Scrapbook: Collected Writings, 1964-1980

Brakhage, Stan

Humor & Entertainment

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