The bones of Rushkin are part of magical experiments which lurk in the background.
Many of the characters have a Dickensian feel in this novel: the mad curator Jimmers, and Howard's Macawberish uncle. The tower reminds me of Robertson Jeffers' tower, the Tor House in Carmel. Some of this is directed at an old flame cousin Sylvia.
He has some dream-like episodes, and like one awakening from a long sleep, he is disoriented and confused throughout most of the book. A museum curator, Howard, is a typical rootless drones, who returns to a coastal Northern California town familiar from his youth, with people from an era when his heart was more engaged. Blaylock and Powers have often collaborated with each other on writing stories, including The Better Boy, On Pirates, and The William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook.īlaylock is also currently director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County High School of the Arts, where Powers is Writer in Residence.īlaylock has an ability to create a setting, which although populated by mad characters is as real as the taste mustard after a picnic. Along with Powers he invented the poet William Ashbless. His works have also been categorized as magic realism. Many of his books are set in Orange County, California, and can more specifically be termed "fabulism" - that is, fantastic things happen in our present-day world, rather than in traditional fantasy, where the setting is often some other world. in 1974 and lives in Orange, California, teaching creative writing at Chapman University.
He was born in Long Beach, California studied English at California State University, Fullerton, receiving an M.A. He writes in a humorous way: His characters never walk, they clump along, or when someone complains (in a flying machine) that flight is impossible, the other characters agree and show him why he's right. James Paul Blaylock is an American fantasy author.
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