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While Embley and Yewbert are hitting one another with croquet mallets one day, an untenanted bicycle rolls into their garden. This book chronicles their adventures across turnip fields, through barns and into bushes.
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It was the day after Tuesday and the day before Wednesday. Read the first page
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If your humour is bizarre and you relish the inexplicable, then this is just the book for you. The author's minimal text and highly unique illustrations combine in this very original tale. On an unknown day in an eccentric world, Gorey's pedal-less bicycle transports Embley and Yewbert to a conclusion they cannot comprehend. The route is populated with sudden threats from the natural world and the author's characteristically sinister and ominous shadows uttering enigmatic warnings. Intrigued? You will be!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the best surrealist work I've read since Max Ernst. As usual, Gorey's illustrations are great (actually very spare in this book), and the text is subtle yet funny. "Beware of this and that."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Upon first reading I was reminded of John Lennon's "In His Own Write". The writing is relentlessly appealing. I think if I understood why I like it so much I would know more about how my mind works. But, it's okay. Just read the book.
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Disturbingly light hearted strangeness
This must be an autobiographical piece vearing from sudden suprising surealism to shining normality. Read more
Published on 12 July 1999
Oo, er. Fi: donc.
This is one of the best books ever written. Strangely, I don't know why.
Published on 14 Feb 1999
Some may disagree... but this seems to be a very deep book..
if you really look at this book hard and analyze it as if it were a dream... it is actually a very deep look at life... not gonna say how... just find out for yourself!
Published on 25 April 1998
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