The lust lizard of Melancholy Cove
(2002, original release: 1999)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/MOORE,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Perennial, 2002
©1999
©1999
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
304 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0060735457 (pbk. : reissue), 0380792745 (pbk.), 9780060735456 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A comedy on a town where hundreds of inhabitants are on anti-depressants, prescribed by Dr. Valerie Riordan. After a patient dies she asks the druggist to substitute placebos. Freed of drugs, the town comes alive with wine and song, so loud it even awakens a sea monster