Zulus

by Everett and Percival Everett

In Percival Everett's sixth book of dark, comic moralizing on the fate of the planet, its people, and the absurd Meaning of It All, readers are taken into the pitiable life of Alice Achitophel, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932966977
• ISBN13: 9780932966971
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A disappointment from a very skilled author

I actually had to wait a few months to get this book, as it is not very often offered for sale. I could have saved my money. This review will have a small spoiler warning, so consider yourself warned. On reviewing the book before purchasing it, both the author and the synopsis of the book were right up my alley. Off-beat, alternative, slightly sci-fi. Concerned an obese woman that is, apparently, the last woman on Earth who can still conceive, which she does through a stranger rape. An underground group fighting the existing regime, basically kidnaps here and hides her in a remote, "safe" village. So far, so good. Instead of giving birth normally, she "splits in half" and a thin version of her comes out, apparently with the baby. That's it, my friends. She flees and pretty much nothing else happens. A very, very disappointing book.