Herr Nightingale and the Satin Woman

by William Kotzwinkle

Book Overview

An oversized graphic novel whose haunting story has been the basis of both a play and a musical comedy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394501063
• ISBN13: 9780394501062
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A haunting and memorable modern mythical journey

I read this book once over 15 years ago, and I still remember it! It is a haunting and memorable modern mythical journey with an outrageous eroticism that has you baffled and entertained simultaneously. Imagine if you can ...a love-smitten cricket (or is it a grasshopper) who enjoys a shipboard romance in the folds of a woman's ****! The illustrations are fine pencil versions where film noir meets Alice in Wonderland and Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra. Yes, there is a golden sarcaphagus.

Hypnotizing

This illustrated fantasy is on my top shelf. Each moody full-page illustration is accompanied by one or two paragraphs of an otherworldly story involving a detective, the strange man he is following, and a dark unhappy woman who is courted in the Orient by the soul of a grasshopper. ( ! ) This haunting mix of imagery gave me strange dreams the first time I read it