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The Asylum of Dr. Caligari Paperback - 2017

by James Morrow

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"No one does history-meets-the-fantastic like Morrow. The Asylum of Dr. Caligari is a great example--Impressionism versus expressionism, psychology in the asylum of 'dreams, ' the weaponization of art, big laughs and big ideas, a wild imagination, and smooth, subtle writing."
--Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell

It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari--sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer. And determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will--for a price--allow governments to parade their troops past his masterpiece: a painting so mesmerizing it can incite entire regiments to rush headlong into battle.

The Asylum of Dr. Caligari is a timely tale that is by turns funny and erotic, tender and bayonet-sharp--but ultimately emerges as a love letter to that mysterious, indispensable thing called art.

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  • Title The Asylum of Dr. Caligari
  • Author James Morrow
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tachyon Publications, San Francisco
  • Publication date 2017
  • ISBN 9781616962654 / 1616962658
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 4.8 x 1.1 in (19.81 x 12.19 x 2.79 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

James Morrow is the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning Towing Jehovah, the New York Times Notable Book Blameless in Abaddon, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning Shambling Towards Hiroshima. His most recent novels include The Madonna and the Starship , The Last Witchfinder, hailed by the Washington Post as "literary magic," and The Philosopher's Apprentice, which received a rave review from Entertainment Weekly. A master of satiric and the surreal, Morrow has enjoyed comparison with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Updike. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania with a collection of Lionel trains and a rapidly growing library of DVDs of questionable taste.

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