William Kotzwinkle
Autore di Walter, Canis Inflatus: Walter the Farting Dog (Latin)
Sull'Autore
William Kotzwinkle was born in 1938 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Rider College and Pennsylvania State University.He worked as an editor and writer in the 1960s. William Kotzwinkle is an accomplished author who is best known for his book of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, but who has mostra altro produced a range of work for both adults and children that often transgresses genre boundaries and the distinction between serious and popular fiction. Beginning as a children's writer with The Fireman, he then published novels for adults such as Hermes 3000, The Fan Man, and Queen of Swords, which began to establish him as an original and distinctive novelist. But it was Doctor Rat that made his reputation as a powerful fantasy writer with a sharp satirical edge. The novel focuses upon laboratory rats whose spokesman, the Doctor Rat of the title, eventually escapes from the vast laboratory where experiments on his fellow-creatures are taking place, and whose adventures are interwoven with shorter tales told by animals of different kinds who finally try to form a whole that will make humans more peaceful and benign. But they are all killed. William Kotzwinkle is a novelist and poet, who is known for his broad range of style and subject. He is a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. He lives with his wife, author Elizabeth Gundy, in Maine. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977. He published The Million Dollar Bear in 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di William Kotzwinkle
אי. טי. חבר מכוכב אחר... 2 copie
1998 1 copia
A Man Who Knew His Birds 1 copia
Ein Bär will nach oben Roman 1 copia
E.T. mimozemšťan 1 copia
Opere correlate
For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon (2018) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult but Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood in a High-Tech Age (1998) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Visions from the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1981) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1980 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1943
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
- Attività lavorative
- screenwriter
novelist - Relazioni
- Gundy, Elizabeth (wife)
- Agente
- Richard Curtis
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The story of a botanist, stranded on an alien planet. Well done.
When you can't tell the humour apart from the deep multifaceted societal commentary, because it's not funny, and doesn't seem like deep commentary either, well, then you've found this book.
There's got to be more there than I found in this novel, but for me it wasn't worth the time spent looking for it.
There's got to be more there than I found in this novel, but for me it wasn't worth the time spent looking for it.
Walter is a dog that farts and they really smell. So bad in fact that they blow a beach umbrella away and now, the Crabs want Water banned from the beach. This book is lunacy in all the best ways. Yes, it’s body humor. Yes, it could be considered a little disgusting but it’s so fun and kids absolutely love it. I know and lived through the years of this book being banned and I’m like why? Why? Why? Why? I love this book, I think everybody should read it at least once, and I’m happy there are libraries that keep copies available for future generations to read.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 70
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 7,107
- Popolarità
- #3,454
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 162
- ISBN
- 349
- Lingue
- 16
- Preferito da
- 13
Much to other family members surprise and consternation, Vittorio leaves Tommy the bulk of his substantial estate. Of course, trouble accompanies the inheritance. Tommy has some debts and vendettas to resolve, some killing to conduct, a couple of new-agey women to end his vow of chastity with. There are a lot of bodies to dispose of until Tommy can rid himself of some, not all, of the loot and earthly possessions and return to the life of a monk, if that’s what he chooses.
It seems that William Kotzwinkle can write, and write extremely well, in any genre he chooses, including crime. In this case crime fiction with a large dose of humor. I see there’s already a sequel to this book, so I’ll be looking for that.… (altro)