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Robert Freeman Wexler''s potent blend of urban realism and fantasy-"North American Surrealism" is the term Jeff VanderMeer has coined for Wexler''s work-is on full display in his second novel, which makes its US debut some 12 years after its initial limited-edition publication in the UK.. At a mundane Manhattan party in the first summer of the twenty-first century, sculptor Jacob Lerner catches sight of an old painting and is transfixed. Who is the woman it portrays so intently? And what accounts for the malevolent gaze of the figure lurking behind her?  Striving to produce art that meets his high standards, without surrender to the demands of the marketplace, Lerner is also driven to learn about the haunting portrait and its creator, Philip Schuyler. His discovery of Schuyler''s journal reveals the sinister forces that coerced the artist as he fulfilled his commission in 1840s New York, and sharpens Lerner''s own conflict with those forces that still control the modern city.  Propelled in his quest by a glass marionette with unusual powers, Lerner finds himself slipping back and forth in time between the present-day city and Schuyler''s Manhattan, before the island''s pastures and streams were buried under concrete. His obsession comes to dominate his own art: he produces a pair of works, one that recovers the promise of the preindustrial island; the other a visualization of the modern metropolis, corrupted by greed and entrenched interests, and its possible destruction. With his vision of a city in ruins, open to regeneration through nature and art, Lerner arrives at a cataclysmic conclusion.  

<b>When does the shadow of a legend merely block out the sun?</b><br><br>Everyone remembers <i>The Rest of Quiglet,</i> that heartwarming sitcom starring Grace Mannix. For four years it told the story of a typical teenage girl, her widowed father, and their robot maid (played by the exotic ''Biltong''). The legend was made complete by the chance casting of the show''s composer, Sherman Schiegel, in an onscreen role as Quiglet''s boyfriend.<p>In perpetual syndication, the show still has many avid fans. Elyse Argawal, following its progress and absorbing its teachings, has made it the focus of her successful academic career, while teenage twins Tabby and Billy Tibbins have pursued their obsession with the show''s machinations in their fanzine, <i>Silent Zone</i>.</p><p>A crucial part of <i>Quiglet</i> mythology is its much discussed but long suppressed finale: the so-called ''murder episode.'' But while doing research in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Elyse stumbles upon a copy of this jewel in the <i>Quiglet</i> crown. And when she and Billy fall in love, she faces the same dilemma the show''s cast has long faced: what is their identity without the myth that brought them fame and fortune?</p><p>Extending over four decades and told from a range of perspectives and paradigms, this debut graphic novel from renowned Australian cultural historian David Nichols is a pitch-perfect satire that explores ambition, desire, and the pursuit of perfection.</p>