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The Last Bizarre Tale - Stories by David Madden (Paperback)
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Though he has authored more than eleven novels including,
"Cassandra Singing, The Suicide's
Wife, Abducted by Circumstance," and the recent "London Bridge in
Plague and Fire," David
Madden has been publishing short stories for all six decades of
his active career. "The Last
Bizarre Tale" consists of works that appeared in journals but that
have not appeared together
as a collection.
Madden used two stories, "The Singer" and "Second Look Presents:
the Rape of an
Indian Brave," as chapters in his 1980 novel "On the Big Wind."
"The Headless Girl's Mother"
was first published as a chapter in a serialized novel entitled
"Hair of the Dog." Two other stories
developed out of longer versions of Madden's novels. "A Demon in
My View" is part of
a sequel, not yet published, to "Bijou."
All of the stories in David Madden's third collection are
distinguished by variety of content
and by shifting styles and often innovative techniques. They are
to varying degrees and
in various ways bizarre in their characters and their
relationships, in the kinds of internal
and external conflicts, and in locales and themes. The title
story, "The Last Bizarre Tale," involving
a corpse that has hung on a hook in a funeral home garage for
decades, is evocative
of Poe and, in its dark, grotesque humor, Flannery O'Connor and
Carson McCullers.
"Process is as important as product to David Madden," writes
editor James Perkins,
"and one can learn as much about the process of writing as about
the human condition by a
careful reading of these stories."
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