Merzougaville, Baby
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My review -
This
is why Stuart Ayris fans read his books. It's a typical Ayris story, beginning
with an almost forty year old man taking a holiday in Marrakech and rescuing a
macaque monkey. As with many of his stories it takes the form of a journey and
our hero meets a number of characters on his way. Stuart's books often seem to
me to be like mythology for modern times. They are stories which you couldn't
imagine occurring in real life but which are there to entertain you and to
teach you something.
I
always enjoy the author's playful word-building. Not satisfied for his purposes
with the existing dictionary, he creates compound words of his own with which
to paint the scenery. If you've read his work before you'll love this. If you
haven't, it's not a bad place to start.
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