Humpty Dumpty: An Oval
by Damon Knight
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When Wellington Stout is shot in the head in a restaurant in Milan, the bullet shatters not only his skull but the surface of reality itself. Suddenly Stout is falling through a world turned inside out, encountering extraterrestrial shoe salesmen, a mystical cabal of dentists, and an invading army from the planet Mongo. A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 in its first softcover edition.Tags
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A fractured novel of a mind in chaos. I'm not sure that I understood the point of the whole work, but I liked its many shards.
I officially have no idea what on earth this book was about and very little clear idea of what happened. It was less a novel and more like someone else's dream written down, constantly shifting and changing in nature without ever connecting from chapter to chapter. I had a particularly hard time keeping track of details whenever I picked it up again after putting it down for a day or two.
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- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Wellington Stout
- Epigraph
- My ears were made keen by always listening. Often, wherever I was, even at the top of the house, I waited motionless for the enormous clock to strike, lest the boom take me by surprise. -- Robert Aickman, 'The Fetch'
- Dedication
- For Chris and Rosanne
- First words
- Mimmuzmaz. Kunruht: somebody was snoring.
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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