The Cretan Teat

by Brian Aldiss

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A ribald tale from Britain's best-love Science Fiction writer.

The Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus.
This false icon gets adopted by the people - and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind.
This is a story where the narrator - the author - is regularly caught with his trousers down.
It is at once funny and important, a post-modern text reminiscent of Pirandello, where sexcapades brush shoulders with the end of the world.

  • ISBN10 1846770645
  • ISBN13 9781846770647
  • Publish Date 19 June 2006 (first published 20 May 2002)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Leonaur Ltd
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 192
  • Language English