Tom La Farge, fabulist

Selected Works

Animal fiction

The Crimson Bears
Two young bears go on a pleasure trip to a city inhabited by many kinds of animal, but find themselves in danger: Bargeton is threatened by invasion from without, civil war within.

A Hundred Doors. Volume 2 of The Crimson Bears
The two young bears are caught up in a night of riot and confusion.

Zuntig
This novel tests the power to recreate oneself through metamorphosis against the power of fate.

Collection of tales.

Terror of Earth
Versions and subversions of medieval beast-fables and fabliaux.

Fabulist Fiction

The Broken House
is the third of the "Mole Place" novels and contains a double narrative about a general who suffers a humiliating defeat and then fights a brilliant losing war, and a courtesan who rises by sex, cookery, theater, and magic.

Travel memoir

2 Chameleons
relates the struggles of two Americans, and of the two chameleons they were given, to adapt to a foreign habitat.

A Hundred Doors

Please see page for The Crimson Bears, of which this is Part 2.

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Green Integer, my publisher for Zuntig, has a strong list based in Douglas Messerli's discriminating taste in daring contemporary writing.

Proteus Gowanus is an interdisciplinary gallery and reading room with many fascinating lobes. I'm doing some work for them; see News.

Tom La Farge's books can be ordered online from Abebooks.

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