DODECAHEDRON

by Tom Mallin ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 8, 1972

First things first: Mr. Mallin is a British playwright and this novel owes a great deal to that genre; and Dodeca, a girl of virgin birth endowed with special curative gifts as well as an unassailable faith, was defended (only) by the Grand Vicar more simply called Father Hedron who found her nearest of any to God. Not so the Abbess of the convent where she trained and served until the 32nd year of her life and who wrongly condemned her -- ""guilty of hedonism."" She is stripped and sent naked into the world, pilloried ""in facets"" paralleling the stations of the cross (by a cobbler who leaves a nail to pierce her foot; in a beauty parlor -- there are anachronistic touches which disrupt the mood of the parable -- in a whorehouse) all prior to her death at the hands of some youths when even her crucifix, mangled, ""begins to bleed."" A curious, only distantly involving processional which of course invites a comparison it cannot withstand even with its variant version special effects.

Pub Date: Sept. 8, 1972

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Outerbridge & Lazard

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1972

Categories: FICTION