- Paperback: 268 pages
- Publisher: Prime Books (November 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1894815114
- ISBN-13: 978-1894815116
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 358 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,835,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Milkwood is not a nice place to be. With the passing of generations, it has curdled. At night it casts a buttery light on the moon. Fortunately, all the action in this book occurs elsewhere. It mostly happens in a warped version of the music industry or in an impossible tavern or in a future where everything is illegal. It sometimes even happens outside the narrative. But never in Milkwood. Never. Milkwood is barely even mentioned. For it is not a nice place to be.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Thank God I'm an Agnostic!, Jan 25 2005
By Matthew W Rossi - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nowhere Near Milkwood (Paperback)
"Dare I say it? Dare I say that I - a mere cog in the workings of this great timepiece called the World (albeit an important one) - have prised myself loose from my bearings, rewound the coiled spring that keeps us all animated, redrawn the numbered face, replaced the hands with my own fists and even set the pendulum to swing on a rhythm of my own choosing?"
He dares. And the world rewinds.
Nowhere Near Milkwood is an astonishing, amusing, and at times aggravating book. The characters are informed by a voice of subtlety that at times chooses to slap you with a fish, that draws inspiration from moonless gutters and roller-skates down the sides of a bottomless pit, that dares to charge the gods with crimes and take up their deserted offices.
This is a book that compels attention, like a tome out of a library that exists everywhere at once, a prize of a book and you should read it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nowhere near Dylan Thomas, Mar 22 2005
By Luís Rodrigues "blackgoblin" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nowhere Near Milkwood (Paperback)
_Nowhere Near Milkwood_ is a collection of linked short stories that are set NOWHERE NEAR, and definitely not UNDER, Milkwood. Because Milkwood has curdled and it is not a nice place to be.
Rhys Hughes is the master of a prodigious imagination, and is capable of throwing ideas at the reader like a barrage of mental machine gun fire. Lewis Carroll wrote that you should try to "believe in two impossible things before breakfast every morning." I wouldn't be surprised if Hughes could think them up, drive them insane and then eat them.
All in all, an outrageously funny and clever book by one of the world's finest absurdist fiction writers.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Forced . . . ., May 3 2009
By Lynn Walker "owlcroft" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nowhere Near Milkwood (Paperback)
Hughes here creates amusing and witty tales, but both the amusement and the wit are mostly mild. The chiefest failing is that Hughes seems to be trying too hard, rather like the amateur comedian who has to repeat the punch line in three different forms. I did enjoy the book, and will read more Hughes, but if I had to sum it up, I'd say he seems someone who always wanted to be R. A. Lafferty when he grew up.
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