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Title: Bizarre by Barry Humphries ISBN: 0-517-13880-8 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 12 December, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A miscellany of decadence.
Comment: Long before the current vogue for "reality TV", goth music, and even before the expurgated edition of "Hollywood Babylon", there was "Bizarre", a curious anthology of fin-de-siecle literature, photography of sideshow freaks, Symbolist and Surrealist art, and the like. Fashionably (for the time) underedited, its uneven quality (a page of "creative destruction of the Mona Lisa" -- by burning, stapling, "puerile manipulation", etc. of a small print) or a full-page, unflattering photo of Sophia Loren eating a banana abuts such fascinating material as the short story "Earl Lavender" and the novella "Count Fanny's Nuptuals", a small, forgotten masterpiece, here given in full.

At the time I first read it (at about the age of 14 or so) this book had the allure of patchouli oil, nose snuff, and poison rings. The freaks were the real draw...the literature was gravy. Nowadays, I'd be more interested in the lit...so little of this is reprinted. Still, I wouldn't mind having a copy...my mom made me throw it out. (It's that good!)