The Willowdale Handcar
Subtitle: or the Return of the Black Doll
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: October 6, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780151010356
First sentence: One summer afternoon in Willowdale Edna, Harry, and Sam wandered down to the railroad station to see if anything was doing.
Description: In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, traveling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff.At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and amusingly absurd, The Willowdale Handcar is vintage Edward Gorey.