Freddy's Book by Gardner, John - 1993

New York.: Vintage Books USA., 1993. 1st printing. Knopf hardcover, 1980, author copyright.. Trade paperback. Very good. Rear lower outside corner angled crease.. 1 First edition. Trade paperback. Glued binding. 245 p. Several full page B&W artworks. Audience: General/trade. A modern folktale: The narrator meets Freddy, a grotesquely huge, fearfully shy adolescent. He lives with his embittered father on a Midwest college campus. While thus cloistered, Freddy has written a book set in 16th century Sweden complete with bishops, shamans, knights, and soldiers locked in combat, and where a Devil grips every soul. And in only 246 pages, the narrative also offers themes of tortured love between fathers and sons, treacheries of kings, and the whims of an unpredictable God. John Gardner, 1933-1982, also authored Grendel, Gilgamesh, Nickel Mountain, The Sunlight Dialogues, among his novels, and several authoritative works about the craft of writing.