Description Like those three dimensional objects that look entirely different depending on the angle from which you view them, this novel presents a number of faces.
From one direction you will see a conventional adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear set in the American West.
However, if you view the book a few steps to the north, you will see a novel that is more Margaret Atwood than Shakespeare: a post-climate-change-catastrophe tale about a transgenic-goat rancher named Leere, the self-styled King of the La Sals Mountain Range in Utah.
And from another angle still, the novel becomes a meditation on ecology, land, place, and consciousness And like most of the really great adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, there are transgenic porcupines and semi-sentient Battle Dredge attack robots.
Funny, tragic, and timely, King Leere explores futures that may materialize sooner than we think.
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By Common Consent Press The tragedy of king leere: goatherd of the la sals, paperback/steven l. peck
