9780140252996

The Frog

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ISBN13: 9780140252996

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' Viking published An Irish Eye in September ?97? Author is the recipient of France's Le Prix Medicis Etranger and has been supported by the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Rockefeller FoundationsA French child, asleep beside a lily pond shortly before the First World War, swallows a frog. Mysteriously, the creature survives within him and endures throughout the boy's life filled with an exhilarating power over others. The Frog becomes a mock philosophical treatise on the culinary arts, the limits of belief, the sinister appeal of illness, and'as the frog usurps even Pascal's sexuality'eroticism. This brilliantly styled parable of violence and illusion explores with aching poignancy the very qualities that make us human.

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9780140252996

ISBN-10

0140252991

Weight

0.40 Pounds

Dimensions

5.25 x 0.50 x 7.75 In

List Price

$11.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published On

1997-09-01



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