But what, you ask, is this book about? It is about Good and Evil; Somethingness and Nothingness; War, Chaos and Void; Hot and Cold; Raw and Cooked; Sanity and Insanity; Yin and Yang; Impulse and Expulse; Love and Neglect; Swords and Scimitars; the Garden of Eden and Transexuality; Light and Dark; Cosmic Schizophrenia and Fleshly Pleasure; and, of course, Rats and Roses.
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"A book filled with unanticipated delight. A fantastic book, in more ways than one." -- Phillip A. Collins
"A surreal fantasy of the first order. The French would delight in this book." -- Curson Whey
"I challenge you to read the first two pages of this book and then put it down." -- Greg Sams
With a surreal tip of the hat to Voltaire, Rabin embarks on his own pilgrim's progress. His character Gregory is a Candide for the nineties. Born into the dual role of rat and rose, a dichotomy of self possession and schizophrenic nightmare, Gregory journeys through a life of twisted and insane fantasy. This is a fiction that is outrageous enough to find humor in the darkest of dreams. Gregory, like Job, Ahab, Oedipus, and Dante before him, steps into the eternal abyss. It is at once tragic and comic. Through successes and wars he travels amidst incestuous murderers of the first water. He journeys to the heights to seek his guru only to find himself an hermaphrodite of the most uncanny design. His refusal of the divine fate confronting him leaves him first a woman and then transformed to the rat on a dung heap. Shades of Kafka, Gorky and Nietzche abound. Finally he, like Prometheus, is fated to write his memoirs, when his hands are loosed, only to be bound again. Here insanity is the operative word. The Rat and The Rose is delightful, sometimes shocking and of course naughty as well as naught. -- From Independent Publisher
"A surreal fantasy of the first order. The French would delight in this book." -- Curson Whey
"I challenge you to read the first two pages of this book and then put it down." -- Greg Sams
With a surreal tip of the hat to Voltaire, Rabin embarks on his own pilgrim's progress. His character Gregory is a Candide for the nineties. Born into the dual role of rat and rose, a dichotomy of self possession and schizophrenic nightmare, Gregory journeys through a life of twisted and insane fantasy. This is a fiction that is outrageous enough to find humor in the darkest of dreams. Gregory, like Job, Ahab, Oedipus, and Dante before him, steps into the eternal abyss. It is at once tragic and comic. Through successes and wars he travels amidst incestuous murderers of the first water. He journeys to the heights to seek his guru only to find himself an hermaphrodite of the most uncanny design. His refusal of the divine fate confronting him leaves him first a woman and then transformed to the rat on a dung heap. Shades of Kafka, Gorky and Nietzche abound. Finally he, like Prometheus, is fated to write his memoirs, when his hands are loosed, only to be bound again. Here insanity is the operative word. The Rat and The Rose is delightful, sometimes shocking and of course naughty as well as naught. -- From Independent Publisher
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