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From Publishers Weekly
Carroll's first novel, The Land of Laughs, is something of a minor classic, but this one, his third, is, ultimately, a failure. A young woman named Cullen, happily married and the mother of an infant daughter, begins having unusually coherent dreams, set in a fabulous land called Rondua. She dreams she is on a quest, accompanied by a young boy whom she comes to realize is the child she aborted several years before. Eventually Cullen and her son are put in confrontation with an evil, protean monster known as Jack Chili. We learn that in some forgotten time Cullen had failed at a previous confrontation, failed morally, abandoning her compatriots to save herself. Shrouded in symbolic imagery, this is a veiled reference to the abortion, as the book increasingly functions, however subtly, as anti-abortion polemic. More of a problem,in the narrative, are sentimentality in lieu of emotion, occasionally cloying preciousness and the general superficiality of characterization.
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From Library Journal
The comfortable daytime world of Cullen James gives way at night to a fantastic dream landscape in which a talking dog and a child named Pepsi lead her on a search for five magical bones. In spare but striking prose, the author of Voice of Our Shadow constructs a powerful story that traverses the two-way street between dreams and reality. Recommended. JC
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Jack Chili, Alvin Williams, New York, Weber Gregston, Sizzling Thumb, Danny James, Bone of the Moon, Axe Boy, Bones of the Moon, City of the Dead, Cullen James, Drew Conrad, Ophir Zik, Long Island, Sea of Brynn, Eliot Kilbertus, Mae James, Martio the Camel, North Carolina, Felina the Wolf, Fire Sandwich, Stastny Panenka, Alvin Chili, Doctor Lavery, Doris Lessing New!
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