Bottom's Dream

We have a very large new book in the store, so large I haven't even figured out where, or how, to display it. Thirteen pounds, 1,495 pages, and $70; seven years in the making in the original German and heroic decades in the translating, Bottom's Dream is a Joycean extravaganza (and by Joycean let's be clear that I mean Finnegans Wake) that has to be paged through to be imagined, and probably lived with for years to be comprehended. The tale of a single day spent, I'm told, discussing Edgar Allan Poe and sex, it's a novel so singular I couldn't resist bringing in a copy to gawk at in the store. Perhaps you will feel the same about bringing a copy home.