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description: How many fantasy novels have an art critic for a hero? This one written as it happens by a veteran art critic features a critic who's invited to the home of a famous painter whose work he regularly trashed in print and who has recently died. The great man's sexy widow gives the critic a real pear which she claims has been taken out of one of the painter's still lifes by a mysterious process. Unable to resist the critic eats the pear and soon finds himself in a parallel (pear-allel?) universe where abstract color patterns walk down the street and strike up conversations with you at diner counters and where a shopping cart stack in a store parking lot becomes a menacing dragon.
language: English
title: Pearworld
publisher: None