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A NOVEL OF MORAL CHAOS AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYCalled Baby Cat-Face because of her "feline green eyes and tiny snub nose," Esquerita Reyna lives in the dark world of modern New Orleans. Surrounded by bizarre characters, whose lives are a chain reaction of horrific yet absurdly comic events, Baby struggles Candide-like to make her way in an inexplicably brutal world.Disillusioned with the violence around her, she joins a religious cult called the Temple of the Few Washed Pure by Her Blood. After a kinky indiscretion with the obese Waldo Orchid, she becomes pregnant with a child who would be dubbed a Second Coming -- of sorts. Even Wild at Heart's perpetually drifting lovebirds, Sailor and Lula, have a wacky cameo. "That none of this seems more than slightly odd in context," noted one critic, "is testimony to the seductive power of Gifford's virtuoso wordplay.""[Gifford's] singular genius is a kind of everyday surreality ... Baby Cat-Face inhabits a New Orleans so feverishly peculiar that Anne Rice would feel at ease there." - Washington Post"Mr. Gifford's characters face the ridiculousness of life with existential gusto -- and in this, at least, there is perfect sense." -

Who reads Baby Cat-Face: A Novel (Harvest American Writing)?

Author

Gifford, Barry

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780156005258

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14