The Fluger [Paperback]

Doris Piserchia (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: DAW; First Edition edition (November 4, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879975776
• ISBN-13: 978-0879975777
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,111,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get Piserchia back in print!, September 25, 2000

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Tom Moody - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fluger (Paperback)

Some enterprising publisher ought to get Doris Piserchia's strange, anarchic little fables from the late '70s/early '80s back in print. In this one, the monster Corradado goes on a rampage in a utopian sky-city, prompting the mayor to hire another monster--an alien entity whose consciousness shuttles back and forth among three bodies--as contract killer(s). The plot follows an orphan boy fixated on killing Corradado and a crooked alcoholic biochemist who couldn't care less about the monster, as they join forces (willingly or not) with the alien hit man. Piserchia's books are subversive in that the monsters are point-of-view characters and we get a kick out of their gleeful rampant destruction of a high-tech but essentially cold-blooded urban environment.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Get Piserchia back in print!, November 19, 1998

By 

Tom Moody - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fluger (Paperback)

Some enterprising publisher ought to get Doris Piserchia's strange, anarchic little fables from the late '70s/early '80s back in print. In this one, the monster Corradado goes on a rampage in a utopian sky-city, prompting the mayor to hire another monster--an alien entity whose consciousness shuttles back and forth among three bodies--as contract killer(s). The plot follows an orphan boy fixated on killing Corradado and an crooked alcoholic biochemist who couldn't care less about the monster, as they join forces (willingly or not) with the alien hit man. Piserchia's books are subversive in that the monsters are point-of-view characters and we get a kick out of their gleeful rampant destruction of a high-tech but essentially cold-blooded urban environment.