![]() ![]() Well, I can say that Toad is well-written - but saying that feels like a cop-out. How does it measure up to her best-known work? She tended bars, and broke up fights in the process - tough lady! - and then wound up writing about boxing for a few mainstream publications such as Playboy and Sports Illustrated.) Thus, 50 years later, we now have Toad in print. Toad, it turns out, is an earlier novel - written sometime in the 1970s - that for some reason or another never saw the light of day in terms of being published during Dunn’s tumultuous lifetime. The book was also nominated for a National Book Award, one of the U.S.’s biggest literary prizes. That novel has become something of an underground cult classic - as the foreword to Toad points out, it’s the kind of book that inspires female strippers to go out and get tattoos of how the main characters would be imagined to look like not so discretely on their bodies. It was written by Katherine Dunn (1945–2016), who was most famous for writing a grotesque novel published in the late ’80s about circus freaks called Geek Love. ![]() ![]() It’s a book by a woman for women, and - after all - how would I be qualified enough to talk about it as such as a man? I’m glad, though, that I picked it up because it is quite a colourful book. I wasn’t sure if I was going to review the novel up for discussion here, Toad. ![]()
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