![]() ![]() Several light soil marks to fore-edge of text block, a nearly fine copy in near fine dust jacket with light wear along bottom edges, mainly lower spine end, and a bit of mild surface scuffing to background ink. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 70. ![]() Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants-in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. "Strongly characterized and beautifully paced, THE LAND OF LAUGHS combines elements of fantasy and horror into a piece of modern American Gothic which is ultimately sui generis." - Christopher Evans in Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 82. A novel about how terrifying that would be. Abbey soon discovers that Galen and its inhabitants are intimately connected to France's writings in disconcerting ways. Jonathan." Obsessed with the works of Marshall France, a deceased reclusive children's author, Thomas Abbey travels to Galen, Missouri, the small town where France lived much of his life, in order to research and write France's biography. A nice association copy inscribed by Carroll to one of his editors: "These laughs are for / the man who took / the Bones to heart. ![]()
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