The principals in Gurr's dark Gothic forest-cum-stage set are the Ring Master, Adolf Hitler, hungry for world dominance his true love, Edwina Casson-Perceval, Bayreuth's most dazzling opera star and her brother Edwin, who as well as fathering his sister's child is a blackmailed double agent. Book and dust jacket (in a protector and not price clipped) both in As New, unread condition! "A wildly audacious but withal cleverly calculated, mishmash of history, myth, sex, psychology and humor that may put readers in mind of Thomas Pynchon, this massive tale recreates the Hitlerian nighmare in terms of Wagnerian dream, as given shape and substance in The Ring, Parsifal, etc. First UK edition/printing by this Canadian author. Ul de Rico (The Valkyrie, Scene 3, Act 3 from the Ring of the Nibelung) (illustrator).
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