This is a collection of stories, a libretto, essays and sketches about knife-fights, a stone sphinx in Paris, a painter in Venice, an opera libretto which re-invents Miranda and Caliban and essays that discuss, among other things, fairy tales and Russell Hoban's own childhood in America.
- ISBN10 0330327984
- ISBN13 9780330327985
- Publish Date 8 October 1993 (first published 16 April 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English