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The Ruins

The Ruins

Farrell, Trace

Hardcover

FantasyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0814726852
ISBN13: 9780814726853
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Apr 1 1998
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.95 Width: 4.80 Depth: 7.52
Language: English

Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the gastronomical Elect, The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself.
Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjection-the increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of our hero, Tom, a high-minded and half-starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts for himself in a dank and vaguely apocalyptic city where the days come and go in a flat, lurid tide, noon and midnight like sullen twins, so indifferently does light distinguish itself from darkness.

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