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Fool on the Hill : A Novel - Matt Ruff

Fool on the Hill

A Novel

Paperback | 8 December 1997

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400 Pages

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22.8 x 15.2 x 3.18

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Written while the author was a student at Cornell University, Fool on the Hill was published to strong critical acclaim, and has since gone on to achieve cult status as an underground best-seller.

As adventurous as the quests of J. R. R. Tolkien and as contemporary as the zany entertainment of Tom Robbins, Fool on the Hill is a book certain to be reread, laughed over, and remembered for a very long time. The hero is S. T. George, a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University, who is looking for love and dragons to slay. Momentous forces and a cast of extraordinary characters gather around George -- including a dog, a cat, and two mysterious women. Soon George is caught up in an epic struggle of life and death, good and evil, magic and love. This fantastic, inventive novel is proof of Matt Ruff's unparalleled imagination.

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