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The Mount: A Novel by Carol Emshwiller (Paperback, 2002)

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He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot: The Hoots are alien invaders. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back.

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* Philip K. Dick Award Winner * Best of the Year: Locus, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Magazine * Nominated for the Impac Award Charley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot: The Hoots are alien invaders. Charley hasn't seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains somewhere, with the other Free Humans. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back. Charley kws how to be a good mount, but w he's going to have to learn how to be a human being. I've been a fan of Carol Emshwiller's since the wonderful Carmen Dog. The Mount is a terrific vel, at once an adventure story and a meditation on the psychology of freedom and slavery. It's literally haunting (days after finishing it, I still think about all the terrible poetry of the Hoot/Sam relationship) and hyptic. I'm hored to have gotten an early look at it. -Glen David Gold Carol Emshwiller's The Mount is a wicked book. Like Harlan Ellison's darkest visions, Emshwiller writes in a voice that reminds us of the golden season when speculative fiction was daring and unsettling. Dystopian, weird, comedic as if the Marquis de Sade had joined Monty Python, and ultimately scary, The Mount takes us deep into ather reality. Our world suddenly seems wrought with terrible ironies and a severe kind of beauty. When we are the mounts, who-or what-is riding us? -Luis Alberto Urrea We are all Mounts and so should read this book like an instruction manual that could help save our lives. That it is also a beautiful funny vel is the usual bonus you get by reading Carol Emshwiller. She always writes them that way. -Kim Stanley Robinson This vel is like a tesseract, I started it and thought, ah, I see what she's doing. But then the dimensions unfolded and somehow it ended up being about so much more. -Maureen F. McHugh The Mount is so extraordinary as to be unpraiseable by a mortal such as I. I had to keep putting it down because it was so disturbing then picking it up because it was so amazing. A postmodernist would call it The Eros of Hegemony, but I'm postmodernist. Nearly every sentence is simultaneously hilarious, prophetic, and disturbing. This person needs to be really, really famous. -Paul Ingram, Prairie Lights Bookstore Brilliantly conceived and painfully acute in its delineation of the complex relationships between masters and slaves, pets and owners, the served and the serving, this poetic, funny and above all humane vel deserves to be read and cherished as a fundamental fable for our material-minded times. -Publishers Weekly Adult/High School - This veteran science-fiction writer is kwn for original plots and characters, and her latest vel does t disappoint, offering an extraordinary, utterly alien, and thoroughly convincing culture set in the t-too-distant future. Emshwiller brings readers immediately into the action, gradually revealing the takeover of Earth by the Hoots, otherworldly beings with superior intelligence and techlogy. Humans have become the Hoots' mounts, and, in the case of the superior Seattle bloodline, valuable racing stock. Most mounts are well off, as the Hoots constantly remind them, and treated kindly by affectionate owners who use punishment poles as rarely as possible. No one agrees more than principal narrator Charley, a privileged young Seattle whose rider-in-training will someday rule the world. The adolescent mount's dream is of bringing hor to his beloved Little Master by becoming a great champion like Beauty, his sire, whose portrait decorates many Hoot walls. When Charley learns that his father w leads the renegade bands called Wilds, he and Little Master flee. This complex and compelling blend of tantalizing themes

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Publisher
Small Beer Press
ISBN-10
1931520038
ISBN-13
9781931520034
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106714094

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341g
Height
209mm
Width
140mm

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Place of Publication
Northampton
Author Biography
Carol Emshwiller is the author of the collections Report to the Men's Club, The Start of the End of it All, Verging on the Pertinent, Joy in Our Cause, and I Live With You, and the novels The Mount, Carmen Dog, Ledoyt, and Leaping Man Hill.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Carol Emshwiller
Date of Publication
01/08/2002
Format Details
Trade Paperback (US)
Subject
General & Literary Fiction
Imprint
Big Mouth House
Genre
General & Literary Fiction
Country of Publication
United States

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