Baby cat-face

a novel

1st ed.

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Author

Barry Gifford

Publication

1995 - Harcourt Brace, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

42,750 words, Guess

Page Count

171 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL1269992M
ISBN-100151001839
OCLC Control Number32012683
OCLC Control Numberbabycatfacenovel0000giff
Library of Congress Control Number95001148

and 2 more

LibraryThing525764
Goodreads2308535

Classifications

DDC813/.54
LCCPS3557.I283 B33 1995

Description

Shocked and confused by the violence and craziness of everyday life, Esquerita Reyna, also known as Baby Cat-Face, is ill-prepared for the modern world. Living in the shadow world of New Orleans, taking spooky side trips to Mississippi and North Carolina, she struggles with the specters of love, fundamentalist religion, and extra-terrestrial activity, to name just a few. After being hijacked with a busful of other passengers and forced to watch a peculiar avant-garde dance about insects, Baby Cat-Face gives it all up and joins Mother Bizco's Temple of the Few Washed Pure by Her Blood. Her membership is jeopardized, though, when a moment of unheavenly forgetfulness entangles her with one Waldo Orchid, a grossly fat young man who has a weakness for obscure poetry during sex. The fate of Baby's unborn child is no more reassuring than hers, and his daughter's only inheritance will be the book her mother wrote: Great Women I Have Heard About But Never Met.