Malcolm: A Comic Novel Japanese featuring the characters and world

featuring the characters and world of Twisted Wonderland

geese make up a wedge

an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent story of a young Swedish boy

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Malcolm: A Comic Novel Japanese featuring the characters and worldThe twenty first century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as the boy on the bench, the titular character of Malcolm is a Candide like figure who is picked up by the most famous astrologer of his period and introduced to a series of increasingly absurd characters and bizarre situations in the most prodigiously funny book to streak across these heavy hanging times (Dorothy Parker).