One moral of the story: In the near term, commercially unsuccessful books fail to gain the readers they may deserve; in the long, successful ones deserve the readers they get.
Irony and Obscurity, first cousins to the recluse, Truth, are no strangers to J Lilly. True to his roots, Lilly has “leveraged” his training in the Greek and Roman classics into a latter-day version of the Greco-Roman literary farce, which numbers post-classical practitioners as varied as Swift and Nabokov. (Contrary to received wisdom, Lolita and Gulliver’s Travels are not stories about or for children.)
Wise Hyenas is a very novel ghost story for very mature readers, told from multiple points of view monitored by a Julio-Claudian observer of present-day American mores. Wise Hyenas is not a book for the culturally myopic or inattentive, the neo-puritanically moral, the artistically invertebrate, the politically punctilious, the merely legally sane. Nor is it a book for alt-Kultur reactionaries with a reflexive preference for a mythopoeic American Paradise Lost. It is a book for the studiously wise, weary of a voyeuristic society, in which the distinction between licentiousness and liberty has been perilously and perversely obscured.
Caveat lector—Let the reader beware. She is about to enter a free-spin zone.
Cover art work entitled Miro Scultore, by Joan Miro
One moral of the story: In the near term, commercially unsuccessful books fail to gain the readers they may deserve; in the long, successful ones deserve the readers they get.
Irony and Obscurity, first cousins to the recluse, Truth, are no strangers to J Lilly. True to his roots, Lilly has “leveraged” his training in the Greek and Roman classics into a latter-day version of the Greco-Roman literary farce, which numbers post-classical practitioners as varied as Swift and Nabokov. (Contrary to received wisdom, Lolita and Gulliver’s Travels are not stories about or for children.)
Wise Hyenas is a very novel ghost story for very mature readers, told from multiple points of view monitored by a Julio-Claudian observer of present-day American mores. Wise Hyenas is not a book for the culturally myopic or inattentive, the neo-puritanically moral, the artistically invertebrate, the politically punctilious, the merely legally sane. Nor is it a book for alt-Kultur reactionaries with a reflexive preference for a mythopoeic American Paradise Lost. It is a book for the studiously wise, weary of a voyeuristic society, in which the distinction between licentiousness and liberty has been perilously and perversely obscured.
Caveat lector—Let the reader beware. She is about to enter a free-spin zone.
Cover art work entitled Miro Scultore, by Joan Miro
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780595228065 |
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Publisher: | iUniverse, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 06/07/2002 |
Pages: | 264 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |