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Chog : a Gothic fable / Quentin Crisp ; illustrations by Gahan Wilson.
LIBRA PR6005.R65 C48 1979
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crisp, Quentin, 1908-1999, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country life--England--Fiction.
- Country life.
- English fiction--20th century.
- English fiction.
- England.
- Genre:
- Gothic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Methuen, [1979]
- Summary:
- Quentin Crisp, famous for being famous, known for a memoir and delicious one-liners, made this one contribution to the literature of fantasy and horror. Crisp's prose is well-suited to this sort of humorous gothic horror and his prose is quite enjoyable here. The story is odd: a miserly millionare passes his fortune on to his beloved dog, Fido, and two aging servants are dependent for their living on the care and upkeep of the household and its doggy patron. Fido and the conniving servants come into conflict and a sequence of unnatural events brings about violent consequences. It is a brief, darkly humorous tragedy of such style one has to wonder what collaborations might have taken place between Quentin Crisp and the director Tim Burton.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0416001319
- 9780416001310
- OCLC:
- 5823070
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