Lizard World - Softcover

Bazes, Terry Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604890770 ISBN 13: 9781604890778

Publisher: Livingston Press (AL), 2011

Synopsis

: A certain . . . a certain noble earl had need of a handsome, young, female carcass -- for which specimen I would be excellently paid provided it be fresh and that the feet were shapely and unblemished . . . . By nightfall, when I set about my work, it was raining. Gratefully, this inclemency of weather favoured the expedition of my efforts: for not a single hackney passed to retard the steady progress of my digging. Indeed, so quickly did I work, that I had broke into the box, bagged my quarry, replaced the soil, and rode off in my cart, ere I bethought myself to see whether the feet of the poor creature would answer the intent of my commission.

About this title

About the Author

Terry Richard Bazes is a graduate of Columbia College and has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of GOLDSMITH'S RETURN (White Pine Press, 1995) and and LIZARD WORLD (Livingston Press, 2011). His personal essays and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, including The Washington Post Book World, Newsday, Columbia Magazine, Travelers' Tales: Spain, Lost Magazine and Evergreen Review.

From the Back Cover

A certain noble earl had need of a handsome, young, female carcass, for which specimen I would be excellently paid provided it be fresh and that the feet were shapely and unblemished . By nightfall, when I set about my work, it was raining. Thus begins the long association of a young medical doctor and his hilariously depraved American descendants with the notorious Earl of Griswold, a seventeenth-century libertine and connoisseur of smells whose discovery of an elixir in the Florida swamps will keep his evil presence alive for the next three-hundred years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Livingston Press (AL)
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604890770
• ISBN 13: 9781604890778
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 263