Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book

by Don Webb

Book Overview

In these postmodernist episodes of high comedy, Don Webb turns Ovid's classic work, The Metamorphosis, on its head. Awarded the 1988 Illinois State University/Fiction Collective Prize through a nationwide fiction competition, Webb's first book of fiction, Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book, explores the theme of change in hitherto unimagined manifestations--from the everyday to the mysterious to the miraculous. These eight dozen metamorphoses are widely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932511171
• ISBN13: 9780932511171
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: F2c
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Strange, isn't it?

Absolutely excellent, pick one each night before bed and enjoy a pleasantly disturbing series of reverie to prod your psyche. However, I find it really hard to believe that this book ships "Usually within 24 hours", when it's out of print. Also, why are their surcharges on Don Webb books, when most of the titles in this catalog are discounted?