Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast

By Ronald J. Gilson and Bernard S. Black

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812525981
• ISBN13: 9780812525984
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Highly Original, Very Provocative

The "beast" in question is Pan, the goat-legged god of classical Greek mythology. He may exist. He may be a figment of Larissa Demming's imagination, a product of her tortured psyche. Mrs. Demming is a fascinating character, and this novel manages to give us a startlingly intimate glimpse into her soul without ever being sensationalistic. (Let's just say that Larissa has a rather unusual relationship history.) Shades of Erica...

A Great Novel On a Potent Theme

Although this is flowing, lyrical narrative, it will have difficulties for many readers. This is not a fantasy, but anyone reading the reviews here would get the idea that it is. This is a psychological novel about a woman dealing with a great crisis in her life. I will avoid spoiling the story, but it will not take the astute reader long to realize where the "mythical beast" really lives and what it represents. Larissa...

HOT PARANORMAL!GREEK SATYR PAN.........

THIS WAS A SURPRISINGLY FRESH,SENSUOUS,NEAR EROTIC READ OF A HUMAN WOMAN AND THE SATYR PAN!AN EXHILARATING,PROVOCATIVE AND WHIMSICAL NOVEL WITH COMEDY AND GRIPPING ROMANTIC FANTASY DRAMA. ON THE SURFACE LARISSA DEMMING IS A HAPPILY MARRIED WOMAN.SHE DABBLES IN WATERCOLORS,INDULGES HER HUSBAND,A PREOCCUPIED PROFESSOR, AND WORRIES ABOUT HER ALARMINGLY PRACTICAL CHILDREN.SHE IS INDIFFERENT TO ANYTHING THAT WOULD EXPOSE...