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Paul Wunderlich by any other name would be extraordinary, but the fact that in German wunderlich means strange, wondrous, bizarre is a stroke of poetic justice. More elegant than Beardsley, more graphic than Grünewald, more phantasmic than many of the Surrealists, his work is at once sensuous and intellectual, erotic and macabre, pungently realistic and wickedly funny...
...mountains it came from would fall on us, would pour into the canoe, ton after ton, never ending." Part of the book's charm comes from Dickey's knowledge and love of the outdoors, of guitar playing, of archery. Dickey also manages an overwhelmingly graphic description of a man shot through the chest with a hunting arrow and slowly dying...
BEFORE you start reading this book, take a good look at the cover. There's nothing there but a white background and, in the center, a big black hand curled into the sign that says fuck you. Take a look, not only because it is the most graphic illustration of everything that The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger ends up being about, but also because, by the end of the book -by the time Cecil Brown has led you through the garish circus of lies, illusions, and rip offs that go reeling through the world of his characters...
...Spanish accent several sizes too large. There is Candice Bergen, grimacing as she loses her virginity to the offscreen sound of firecrackers banging. There is windy dialogue ("Yesterday never happens again"). There is the rhythmic up-and-down movement of a camera lens during yet another harsh, graphic seduction scene...
...Cover: Graphic design by Peter...