The OxBreadth Author:Alan Singer The Ox Breatdth is an unabashed celebration of a rich and sensuous lieterary craftsmanship. It is a verbal tepestry whose texture defies the transparencies of conventional fiction. The reader does not peer through this fiction to discover what he already knows: such attempts are inevitably arrested by a surface of compelling energy and innovat... more »ion. In the strangeness of the narrator's voice, the alien quality of its landscape, and the troubling nature of its plot.« less