The Oddity

by V.B. Price and Vincent Barrett Price

This dramatic philosophical novel spans more than half the twentieth century in Albuquerque and Los Angeles. The story centers on Hana Nicholas, a liberated woman ahead of her time who is the center of a circle of devoted friends in Albuquerque's North Valley. Her eccentric world comes to a sudden end in the early 1950s, and Lowell Briscoe, her young prot g , is haunted for the rest of his life by the rude destruction of Hana and her home. From...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826333036
• ISBN13: 9780826333032
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Different, unusual, and amazing

At a booksigning, I asked V.B. Price what this book was about. He hesitated for a minute and said "nonconformity". Told in several different voices, this jigsaw puzzle of a story describes event in the lives of a group of people in Albuquerque's north valley in the 1940's. Intertwined is the story of one person effected by the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Constantly shifting scenes, places and dates bring together a story that is at once unusual and intriging. I found the 1992 part of the story less interesting than the 1940's, and I found the story dragging toward the end. But I stayed with it and in the end was glad I did.