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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 β 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 β a freak of creation β is running amok in the fields. To solve the mystery, three generations of prodigal sons β 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 β 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 β Amish, civilian, or... other β in the best tradition of Tom Robbins and George Saunders.
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