Shamp of the City-Solo (Revised)

by Jaimy Gordon and Cleo Qian

Here is one of the finest comic novels to appear in the last half century, deserving comparison with that of the best of Flann O'Brien, Angela Carter, or Witold Gombrowicz. Upon its first publication in 1974, this novel quickly became an underground sensation.This "fantasy novel" occurs in what may be thought of as a dystopian parallel-universe, a world recognizable to ours but set in an odd remove where the hero's hunger for fame shows its mythic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929701348
• ISBN13: 9780929701349
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: McPherson
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"