SAW

by Steve Katz ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1972

A wondrous, cheery, freaked-out novel about a number of events and ""people"" non-linked together with insouciant irrelevance. There's Eileen, the girl with a tendency to fall in love with geometrical figures; the Sphere she meets in the park; the Astronaut who takes over Eileen's place in ""Leroy,"" searching the earth for the peculiar amalgam of greed, envy, and bourbon necessary for the reproductive processes on Mother Galaxy; and the Cylinder, possibly nonexistent, which flattens the debris of New York like an incredible simile, in which the novel abounds. Steve Katz, the author, is also present, calmly discussing the writing of ""Leroy"" and the zany experiences of his life with the same matter-of-fact panache with which he describes this mundane but fantastic world in which he lives. Neither dream nor nightmare, despite the incredible exegesis of the Garbage Theory of Creation, this is simply a charming book that amuses the reader as it gently deposits him from one place to another, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of pleasure if you're so minded.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1972

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1972

Categories: FICTION