Cretan Teat

Brian Aldiss

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Harper Collins
25 August 2014

Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks; Religious subjects depicted in art; Classic science fiction; Fantasy; Popular culture; Parodies & spoofs; Cultural & Period Fantasy

A ribald tale from Britain's best-love Science Fiction writer. The Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus. This false icon gets adopted by the people - and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind. This is a story where the narrator - the author - is regularly caught with his trousers down. It is at once funny and important, a post-modern text reminiscent of Pirandello, where sexcapades brush shoulders with the end of the world.

By: Brian Aldiss
Imprint: Harper Collins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 125g
ISBN: 9780007482214
ISBN 10: 0007482213
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 25 August 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story 'Criminal Record', which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.