The Fan Man: The Novel (Illustrated Edition) [Paperback]

William Kotzwinkle (Author), Keith Bendis (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 207 pages
• Publisher: Avon; 1ST edition (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380431254
• ISBN-13: 978-0380431250
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #749,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

William Kotzwinkle is a celebrated satirist in the US as well as being author of several favourite books, including ET the Extra-Terrestrial and of course, the New York Times listed bestselling Walter the Farting Dog. He lives on an island off the east coast of America.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Trip into the Fan Man's (Pot) Head, October 26, 2008

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Peter Weissman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fan Man: The Novel (Illustrated Edition) (Paperback)

I like this book, which I've read more than once, because it gets us into the (pot) head of the faux first person narrator, Horse Badorties, and plucks us accurately down into the loosey-goosey East Village I recall well, back in the day. I've recommended it a few times, and will recommend it again. It would deserve five stars if not for the regrettable rape scene, which I like to believe the young Kotzwinkle would have redone as an older, wiser head. Not everything is funny.I Think, Therefore Who Am I?

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Dorky Dorky Day, September 20, 2005

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cortezhill - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fan Man: The Novel (Illustrated Edition) (Paperback)

"This is Horse Badorties, man, tape recording a message for the great time capsule to be buried in concrete and dug up tomorrow. I'm in Chinatown, man, and I am receiving brain flashes from previous lifetimes as a Chinaman, man. Used to play the Chinese flute, man, a thousand years ago, under a doorstep. Yes, man, I used to be in the court of the Paper Dragon, and speaking of dragging, man, my right arm is scraping the ground from all the satchel, fan, and heavy umbrella I'm carrying around.

"And dig, man, here comes a fifteen-year-old Chinese chick, man, with beautiful eyes and long black hair. Man, how I would love to bowl in her pagoda."

Horse Badorties is a unique creation in America fiction. Even his roaches have roaches. This illustrated edition contains every mind-blowing word of the original novel and brings to life in vivid black-and-white the man "The Seattle Times" described as: "a kind of Ginger man, Lucky Jim, Huck Finn, and Easy Rider all mixed up in one...the marvelous creation of a truly witty and extremely perceptive mind... a delightfully, often devastatingly funny novel." - from book's back cover