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Rumpus Book ClubOctober 30th, 2009
Stephen Sparks: The Last Book I Loved, The Feverhead
•The Feverhead by Wolfgang Bauer is unsurprisingly and unfortunately out of print. As of tonight (October 27, 2009), you can find used copies on Amazon for $7.41.
•One of the novel’s characters is called Captain Ox: he is a single man divided between two bodies, three eyes, and exactly 3.5 meters. Neither of him bears resemblance to himself – or the other? I’ll allow that he may be a symbol, but what explanation is there for the scene in which one of him is kidnapped by monks (at the instigation of a transvestite nun) while both of him is entering a brothel? …more
