ANIMAL MAGNET - Tecno-Libro

Told from numerous and at times oblique perspectives, while using various literary forms and styles, this unusual family saga begins with the forbidden love of a manor tutor and lunatic scullery maid. The illegitimate line begun by PA©ter Montgolfier and Theresa Seyfert is, from beginning to end, beset by hardship, scandal, and shame. Spanning centuries and continents, the story jumps generationally if erratically down the family tree, beginning in the . eighteenth century in the Kingdom of Hungary with PA©ter and Theresa and ending more than two centuries later in a futuristic L.A. with controversial performance artist Vic Ray. Along the way, the reader meets an unforgettable cast of characters: Ernst Seyfert, footman and fratricide. Georges d Aubigne, suicidal playwright and rA©publicain. Joseph Vasser, bigamist and author of the Bible ii . and Jesus Ramos, the Dog-faced Boy. to name a few. Ultimately, Animal Magnet probes the notion of humanness, hu