| Whirligigs Contributor(s): Henry, O. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1985387840 ISBN-13: 9781985387843 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $13.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.74 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assert that it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger than Fiction. I do not know if the yarn I am anxious for you to read is true; but the Spanish purser of the fruit steamer El Carrero swore to me by the shrine of Santa Guadalupe that he had the facts from the U. S. vice-consul at La Paz-a person who could not possibly have been cognizant of half of them. As for the adage quoted above, I take pleasure in puncturing it by affirming that I read in a purely fictional story the other day the line: "'Be it so, ' said the policeman." Nothing so strange has yet cropped out in Truth. When H. Ferguson Hedges, millionaire promoter, investor and man-about- New-York, turned his thoughts upon matters convivial, and word of it went "down the line," bouncers took a precautionary turn at the Indian clubs, waiters put ironstone china on his favourite tables, cab drivers crowded close to the curbstone in front of all-night caf s, and careful cashiers in his regular haunts charged up a few bottles to his account by way of preface and introduction. |