Synopsis
Harry Gainesborough, an author of children's fantasy novels (in the Oz mode) mired in depression after the death of his daughter, is caught up in the complex reality created by an escaped asylum inmate who believes that the fantastical events described in one of Harry's books, ZOD WALLOP, are actually happening.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1995-11-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 277 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
Harry Gainesborough, a children's book author who has written nothing since his daughter's death, fears that his weirdest book, Zod Wallop, is actually coming to life when a serious of horrible coincidences occur.
Industry Reviews
"Imagine dropping acid with Dr. Seuss. Oh, the places you'll go! Maybe to Zod Wallop...What a plot!...the results are simultaneously madcap, tragic, cartoony, and Cute...clunkily wonderful..."
New York Times Book Review - David Bowman (11/26/1995)
"One of the strangest achievements in recent literature, 'Zod Wallop' manages to pile absurdity on top of absurdity, passing from the ridiculous to the grotesque and eventually the horrific before soaring, incredibly, to the sublime, all the while violating many of those time-honored customs that enable us, readers and writers, to live together in harmony...Fantastical as it is, puffed up with strangeness, as full of shape-changing and mad happenstance as any fairy tale, it nonetheless is rooted firmly...in the common ground of human feeling."
Washington Post Book World - Richard Grant (12/31/1995)
"An amusingly conceived and brightly written fantasy...A work of great originality and charm from a brilliant writer of fantasy who's also a very considerable novelist."
Kelly
"A novel that surprises us on every page and hurries us toward an unguessable destination...Spencer satirizes the pharmaceutical industry, literary agents, smoking, S&M, psychotherapy, automated teller machines, the sword-and-sorcery genre, roadside convenience stores, weddings, parenthood, geezers, monkeys, and espionage. He has a way with metaphor...Spencer is funniest, wisest, and most poignant in the beginning...but he's never less than entertaining."
Grant
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