The Spell: A Romance

by Tom Clark

Book Overview

The hero of this American gothic nightmare comedy is a messianic hillbilly prophet whose onetime local glory as a high school football star gives way to a career of outlaw questing. With the mysterious disappearance of his main squeeze--an edgy, spooky honkytonk chanteuse--that quest becomes increasingly deviant and deranged.
The landscape through which the earnest, confused seeker chivvies his banged-up black pickup truck is a magical and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574231235
• ISBN13: 9781574231236
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice in a Twisted way

This is not the book to read if you don't like modern prose and poetry. And, don't be fooled, the romance is not a lovey-duvey sort. THis book is all about the language, more so than the story.

hey, wow, oh

the best, the only, the one.