The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu (FIRST EDITION) romance_tag Wishbone is an irrepressible pooch

Wishbone is an irrepressible pooch who imagines himself as major characters in classic literature as a means of working through the challenges of everyday life

But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all

as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature

Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the full drama of one man's search to affirm his own worth and humanit

The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu (FIRST EDITION) romance_tag Wishbone is an irrepressible poochFIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING [1995] Book and dust jacket are both excellent. Light wear. Codrescu expertly weaves together two stories in this neo gothic work: that of the 16th century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a beautiful and terrifying woman who bathes in the blood of virgin girls; and of her distant descendent, a contemporary journalist who must return to his native Hungary and come to terms with his bloody and disturbing past.