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Tristan Egolf's new novel is a book about the return of an old curse ? the Kornwolf, a ferocious werewolf whose nocturnal rampaging becomes increasingly impossible to ignore.
Grove Press
December 2005
On Sale: November 29, 2005
400 pages
ISBN: 0802170161
EAN: 9780802170163
Paperback
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Thriller | Horror
Kornwolf takes the reader for a good old-fashioned
romp in the stubble — a journey through the slums and honky
tundra of rural Pennsylvania, where nothing quite passes for
good or bad, sublime or dismal, discrete or brash. And then
the monotony breaks. Something — a freak of creation — is
running amok in the fields. To solve the mystery, three
generations of prodigal sons — a writer and hometown boy who
swore he'd never come back to Penn's Woods; a middle-aged
former pugilist who runs a decrepit boxing gym; and a
misfit, mute, beaten-down Amish boy — are brought together
by the light of a blue moon, in a town called Blue Ball. On
one level this is a masterfully orchestrated, hilarious, and
compelling take on the classic horror yarn, on another,
Kornwolf is a social satire of suburban sprawl,
closed minds, and all manners and varieties of
self-satisfaction — Amish, civilian, or... other — in
the best tradition of Tom Robbins and George Saunders.
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