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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914
EAN: 9780947757656
ISBN: 0947757651
Label: Atlas Press
Manufacturer: Atlas Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 107
Publication Date: 1993-12
Publisher: Atlas Press
Sales Rank: 678492
Studio: Atlas Press
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The Feverhead is written in the form of letters between a couple of not-all-that-bright Austrians. Their correspondence is doomed to failure, nearly every letter crosses in the post and yet they succeed in their quest: the search for a perfect thermometer (and a serial murderer). In fact they both independently discover the secret of the universe in a remote spot thousands of miles from their intended (and different) destinations.Bauer’s comedy of errors is ennacted by an unusual cast that includes microscopic schoolgirls, ambigously sexed nuns, incompetent detectives, two ultimately bad poets, living steam engines and a venerable three-eyed sea-captain whose two bodies remain exactly 3.5 metres apart, not to mention: ULF.
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Rating:  - worth your time
im a fan of creative/surreal fiction. this books starts slow with a semi amusing vonnegut tone (im not a vonnegut fan) - but it builds momentum and by midpoint its an elevated frenzy of fun.
Rating: - GET THIS BOOK BEFORE IT GOES OUT OF PRINT.OK?
before you read this book your grandfather will tell you that people are just like animals except animals dont have souls. then you read the feverhead. your grandfather takes a walk to the little grocery store and sees a beetle stuck on its back kicking its legs. he doesnt step on the beetle. but he doesnt turn it over either. such is the power of the feverhead. also if you set a glass of ice on top of the book, it will melt faster than if you set it in the refrigerator. one of my favorite examples ... Read More
Rating:  - The kind of Fever you'll appreciate
Wolfgang Bauer is an incredible oddity, the man must be either insane or the purest form of genius. I don't believe this alone. Malcolm Green must feel the same way to have taken the time to translate this complex, hilarious, amazing piece from the well-known (at least in Europe) Austrian playwright. An out of this world journey, The Feverhead will drag you around the world, maybe even to Heaven or Hell. You might even meet ULF! Imagine it...ULF! Weird and Wacky, but extremely compelling, with twists ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914
EAN: 9780947757656
ISBN: 0947757651
Label: Atlas Press
Manufacturer: Atlas Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 107
Publication Date: 1993-12
Publisher: Atlas Press
Sales Rank: 678492
Studio: Atlas Press