Fredy Neptune
a novel in verse
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Author
Publication
1999 - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
63,750 words, Guess
Page Count
255 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL386193M
- ISBN-100374158541
- OCLC Control Number40163586
- OCLC Control Numberfredyneptunenove0000murr
- Library of Congress Control Number98048911
and 2 more
- LibraryThing525249
- Goodreads1388986
Classifications
- DDC821
- LCCPR9619.3.M83 F74 1999
Description
When German-Australian sailor Friedrich "Fredy" Boettcher is shanghied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse during much of his life, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age. Told in blue-collar English that regains freshness by eschewing the mind-set of literary language, Fredy's picaresque life - as, perhaps, the only Nordic Superman ever - is deep-dyed in layers of irony and attains a mind-inverting resolution.
Subjects
Topics
Places
Genres
- Poetry.
Other Editions
- Fredy Neptune
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