Cretan Teat
β Scribed by Aldiss, Brian W
- Book ID
- 108867560
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007482214
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A ribald tale from Britain's best-love Science Fiction writer.Available for the first time in eBook. The Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus.This false icon gets adopted by the people οΏ½ and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind.This is a story where the narrator οΏ½ the author οΏ½ is regularly caught with his trousers down.It is at once funny and important, a post-modern text reminiscent of Pirandello, where sexcapades brush shoulders with the end of the world.
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