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The Headless Bust
Edward Gorey
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Overview
As we wander off with Edward Gorey into the next millennium our reasons for being here are far from clear. Nevertheless, the master craftsmen is at his best . . Ere the last guest was fin'lly gone.Ça va, hélas, from bad to worse: Adieu to prose, alló to verse. The Bahhumbug with lack of tact. Now called attention to the fact, Which made it feel to Edmund Gravel. He was already to unravel
Editorials
Library Journal
Characters from The Haunted Tea Cosy return for more of Gorey's inimitably spooky doings. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.Kirkus Reviews
A hilariously suave (previously unpublished) morality tale from the master of understated mayhem and apocalypse (The Unstrung Harp, p. 572, etc.). Its wonderfully dark pictures and text detail a dream journey undertaken, at century's end, by dull-looking Edmund Gravel and an accompanying arachnoid figure, the Bahhumbug, to a "remote provincial town" where polite society's veneer is blithely whisked away and assorted beautiful people are revealed in all their mendacity, folly, and awful bad luck. As always, Gorey's trademark rhyming couplets are filled with inexplicably funny, sad, and somehow beautiful occurrences (e.g., "Sir U___ fell from a speeding train,/Which did some damage to his brain,/And after that he did not know /How to pronounce the letter O"). Calling this delightful tale its author's "Vision of Judgment" or Inferno would be like breaking a butterfly on a wheel—with which image, come to think of it, Gorey might do something ineffably sinister and entertaining.Book Details
Published
December 31, 1999
Publisher
New York : Harcourt Brace, c1999.
Pages
64
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780151005147