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VALLGREN,CARL-JOHAN: : THE HORRIFIC SUFFERINGS of the MIND-READING MONSTER HERCULES BAREFOOT: HIS WONDERFUL LOVE and HIS TERRIBLE HATRED.[Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.THE HARVILL PRESS,2005.

ISBN 1843431513.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED 1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.Translated from the Swedish by Paul and Veronica Britten-Austin.Both translators live in Swedn.Paul is the translator into English of Hjalmar Soderberg's 'Doctor Glas',C J Almqvist's 'The Queen's Tiara' and C M Bellman's allegedly untranslatable songs.His daughter Veronica,a niece of Ingar Bergmann,is a distinguished painter and translator.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but author's ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour pictorial artwork by Russell Cobb,illustrated dw/dj,with black+red lettering; with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.All four corners of dw/dj minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss; both head+foot of spine/backstrip of same with tiny, minor closed tears/nicks. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.An accidental wrinkling/creasing to lower corner of pp9/10 else other pages unaffected by any other fault(s).Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate mottled cream and beige eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-281pp [paginated] includes prologue (?),Pts I-IX and a postscript,plus [unpaginated] half- title,author signed title page,a title separator page,and a dedication/epigram. On a stormy night in 1813,a doctor is called to the aid of two prostitutes in childbirth.To one is born a healthy girl, Henriette,to the other,what can only be described as a monster: a boy,Hercule,deaf- mute and hideously deformed,and with the power to read minds.This picaresque fable - in the vein of 'Nights at the Circus' and 'Perfume' - tells of the love that grows between Hercule and Henriette during their childhood,and which will entwine their fates for ever. Vallgren paints a cast of grotesques in a magical and atmospheric tour of nineteenth-century Europe: the swags and tails of the brothel,where Hercule is born; the phantasmagoria of the freak show,with which he travels; the sinister grandeur of the Jesuit monasteries,in which he finds both shelter and peril; the squalor of the asylum,where finds only pain. 'The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot' tells of social oppression,official corruption and religious perecution,but is,at its heart,an extraordinary love story.Moving, uplifting,at times dark and macabre,this novel stretches the bounds of imagination,presenting the bizarre as the everyday and leading you through it like a child,wide-eyed in wonder at a carnival.But though filled with curiosities it is nevertheless a very human story of love and hate at their most extreme,and is simply unforgettable. Author born in 1964 and author of eight books,of which this title is the first to be translated into English.He currently lives in Stockholm. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.

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