Product Description
An artist searches for his muse...and discovers the HAG! She is a woman beautiful and ugly, ancient and forever youthful. She inspires, and destroys. She brings great blessings, the gifts of poetry, the joys of art and love. And she ravages, with an unfathomable cruelty, everyone she touches. In this strange and beautiful novel, an artist searches for this creature. Along the way he finds women he loves, and women he hates. They crawl through the mud in the jungles of Mexico, wearing stockings and stilettos. They hang from crosses, nearly naked. He follows them through ruined buildings as they stroll, arm in arm, in corsets and very high heels, sheathed in nylon, perfumed and enlaced. They dance in empty rooms. We are, they say, just as perverse as you...and they smile, wickedly beautiful.
The novel is illustrated with 161 photos of the author's wife, the Mexican poet and mosaic artist Jacqueline Lizarraga de Stuefloten.
The novel is illustrated with 161 photos of the author's wife, the Mexican poet and mosaic artist Jacqueline Lizarraga de Stuefloten.
About the Author
D.N. Stuefloten has spent his life wandering around the world writing stories and novels. He has been a smuggler in Bombay, a black market money-changer in Ceylon, a fisherman in the South Seas, a dress designer in California, and a magician's assistant in Africa. He was smuggled into Borneo by Moro pirates and has lived clandestinely in the Mayan ruins of Guatamala and Mexico. His novels reflect his attempt to describe the surreal, mysterious world he has experienced. Four of his books have been published by Fiction Collective Two, and his stories have appeared in literary magazines in the U.S., Australia, and England. HAG is his first illustrated novel, and has also been produced as a movie. He has been experimenting with computer/internet art for several years; more about the HAG movie can be seen at www.hagmovie.com, plus more of his own work at www.dnstuefloten.com. His new novel and movie, Evidence of a Lost City, currently in progress, can be explored at www.evidenceofalostcity.com. He resides in Southern California with his wife, the Mexican poet and mosaic artist Jacqueline Lizarraga de Stuefloten.
