Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium
by:
Edward Gorey (author)
"Marvellous, unsettling fun." - "Observer". "Many of Edward Gorey's most fervent devotees think he's: English and dead. Actually, he has never so much as visited either place." - "New Yorker". The inhabitants of the ever-so-popular "Haunted Tea-Cosy" return in a new holiday tale. As we wander off...
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"Marvellous, unsettling fun." - "Observer". "Many of Edward Gorey's most fervent devotees think he's: English and dead. Actually, he has never so much as visited either place." - "New Yorker". The inhabitants of the ever-so-popular "Haunted Tea-Cosy" return in a new holiday tale. As we wander off with Edward Gorey into the next millennium our reasons for being here are far from clear. Nevertheless, the master craftsman at his best.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780747550396 (0747550395)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Gorey is a magician who evokes humor without writing any jokes; large country houses as sets by showing nothing but a chair, or a bit of a wall; Victorian doorstoppers with only a handful of sentences. It's not at all surprising that his production of Dracula was a hit. One thing that comes up in...
Pretty much everything you'd expect from Gorey. Took it out of the library, and I'm glad I did. Worth a quick read, but I'm not sure I'd buy it, at least not for myself.
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