I can count the number of good grades I got in my life on one hand in the dark. I'll leave the laurels to Manuel Rivas, who gets high marks for his new Overlook release IN THE WILDERNESS in the latest ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY...IN THE WILDERNESS
Manuel Rivas
(Overlook $14.95)
Animals have human souls--literally--in the Spanish novelist Manual Rivas' darkly dazzling vision of purgatory in 1980s Galicia: A rabbit-hunting priest and his poacher nemesis are reincarnated as mice; a crime-TV producer returns as a meditative lizard; a dethroned king and his troubadours take wing as crows. In a series of tightly coiled lyrical vignettes, these furred and feathered wayfarers mingle, quarrel, and observe the struggling humans in their midst, including an embittered housewife, her mute horseman brother, and an artist who turns subversive graffiti slogans into ad copy. Buoyed by Jonathan Dunne's supple translation, IN THE WILDERNESS is by turns as timeless as Almodavar, and as crammed and unruly as a Picasso painting. A --Ben Spier
Woo! Let's go to Dairy Queen! I'm buying!
--Jim
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