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HE IS THE SPIRIT OF EVERYTHING YOUNG IN ALL OF US: BEAUTIFUL AND FRIGHTENING AND UNEXPECTED. The Boston Globe had many other good things to say about William Kotzwinkle on the original publication of ELEPHANT BANGS TRAIN : What he really is is a heckuva writer, with a wildly-imaginative wit and wisdom; clever and capricious as a vagrant wind at a hemline; disciplined as a Marine Corps D.I. in attention to detailed specks of explosive grit. The 16 pieces herein are like the random shots from a Roman candle; all with a special brilliance; no two alike in color, shape, direction, or tangent. The New York Times also likes him: Kotzwinkle is the fabulist, the gifted bard, the natural storyteller. And Playboy described this book as strange, elusive, irridescent .... Elephants, magicians, and dreamers dance through young Kotzwinkles fantasy world. Illusion here is from off the loom, deep-dyed and draped in as many exotic costumes as a maharani. From Kirkus Reviews A happy congeries of spoofs and more formal parodies, instant legends and souvenirs of lost innocence. Mockery is mimicry -- of the Mounties' hearty gruffness, of a Chinese fairy tale's vision of etern

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Author

Kotzwinkle, William

Publisher

Corgi Books

Published

1971

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Rating

4.02 / 5 (71 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14