Cretan Teat by Brian Aldiss - 9780007482214

The Friday Project

Cretan TeatAuthor(s): Brian Aldiss\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Friday Project Limited\nISBN-13: 9780007482214, 978-0007482214\nSynopsis\nA ribald tale from Britains best-love Science Fiction writer.\n\nThe Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus.\nThis false icon gets adopted by the people and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind.\nThis is a story where the narrator the author is regularly caught with his trousers down.\nIt is at once funny and important, a post-modern text reminiscent of Pirandello, where sexcapades brush shoulders with the end of the world.