Bones Of The Moon

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>A bizarre series of dreams set in Rondua, a psychedelic fantasy landscape, provides Cullen, a young Manhattan wife, with an odd fulfillment until her dream world spills over into New York reality<br/><br/><br/>From Publishers Weekly<br/><br/><br/>Carroll's first novel, The Land of Laughs, is something of a minor classic, but this one, his third, is, ultimately, a failure. A young woman named Cullen, happily married and the mother of an infant daughter, begins having unusually coherent dreams, set in a fabulous land called Rondua. She dreams she is on a quest, accompanied by a young boy whom she comes to realize is the child she aborted several years before. Eventually Cullen and her son are put in confrontation with an evil, protean monster known as Jack Chili. We learn that in some forgotten time Cullen had failed at a previous confrontation, failed morally, abandoning her compatriots to save herself. Shrouded in symbolic imagery, this is a veiled reference to the abortion, as the book increasingly functions, however subtly, as anti-abortion polemic. More of a problem,in the narrative, are sentimentality in lieu of emotion, occasionally cloying preciousness and the general superficiality of characterization.<br/>Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>“Bones of the Moon is chilling and no one has ever written a book quite like it...Jonathan Carroll is a cult waiting to be born.” ―Pat Conroy<br/>“A gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, gruesome, thought-provoking novel. This grand book is a triumph.” ―Stephen King<br/>“Amazing, perplexing, and unforgettable. A magical world that forces the reader to put aside his own and live only in wonder.” ―Stanislaw Lem<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Jonathan Carroll has written 13 novels, a short story collection, and a number of film scripts. He has won the World Fantasy award, British Fantasy award, French Fantasy award (twice), and the Bram Stoker award. He has lived in Vienna, Austria for three decades with his wife Beverly and immortal bullterrier, Jack the Idiot.<br/><br/><br/>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>1<br/> <br/> <br/>The Axe Boy lived downstairs. We were friendly because he was forever walking an ugly little dog I patted when I bumped into them in the hall.<br/>As you've seen from the pictures, he was nothing special to look at. The only odd thing I noticed was his eyeglasses: they were almost always dirty--that foggy, smudged look which makes you want to take out your own hanky and give them a good cleaning.<br/>"A good boy." Why do newspapers always use terms like that? "Everyone who knew him thought of the murderer as a good boy who loved his parents, was a member of the Eagle Scouts and spent his spare time collecting Asian stamps."<br/>Even my wonderful husband Danny said that after most of the grisly details came out. "He seemed like a good kid, didn't he, Cullen? 'Axe Boy'? Jesus, what a thing to call someone!"<br/>"Danny, our young friend 'Axe Boy' Alvin Williams chopped his mother and sister into<br/>pieces exactly one floor below our apartment. A good boy he is<br/>not."<br/>Danny had that quality and most of the time I loved him very much for it: the world is to be forgiven. Axe Boys, dogs that shit in the middle of the sidewalk, dangerous drivers…they know not what they do.<br/><br/>I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buster.<br/>We were eating breakfast and Danny was reading the story to me from the paper. The thought of that murderous creep snoozing below us not long before still made my fanny tingle.<br/>"He says he didn't know what came over him."<br/>"Oh, really? Well, I hope the next thing that comes over him is a noose!"<br/>"Cullen, you've interrupted me four times since I began reading this article to you. Would you like me to go on, or would you rather do a monologue?"<br/>But he smiled when he said this because he wasn't really angry. When Danny got angry, he became quiet. Then you ran and hid under the bed for a very lon