![]() ![]() And even when the character in the book explained this reference, I am still not 100% sure I understand it in the context of the book - maybe that memories are not what they seem? That reality is not what we remember? I wasn’t too impressed either with the cover image itself. This reference is so obscure, that until the author made reference to it in the last 25% of the book, I had no idea. The title is actually an obscure reference to the fact that in the movie Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow at some point in the film has a pistol, but that nobody seems to remember this fact. I was under this impression due to the title “Scarecrow Has a Gun.” I was not correct in the slightest. My first impression, having not read the synopsis of the book, was that the book was a mystery / thriller starring a detective. I gave this book 4 stars, as my overall impression of the book was positive. I received this book from Netgalley as an ARC Audiobook. " -Tex Gresham, author of Sunflower, Heck, Texas, and This Is Strange June It’s a gut-punch meditation on the way our brains process mediation, memory, trauma, and grief. "With writing that’s both sharp and dense, Michael Paul Kozlowsky’s Scarecrow Has A Gun is a labyrinthine mystery that feels as if David Cronenberg and Don DeLillo had collaborated on a Philip K. “Michael Paul Kozlowsky’s brutally eccentric Scarecrow Has a Gun is a masterclass in Cartesian storytelling-simultaneously evoking Christopher Nolan’s clockwork precision and JG Ballard’s ultra-modern sense of irony, Kozlowsky has bestowed upon our cultural landscape a Rashomon for our Post-Truth, Mandela Effect-ed times.” -Jeff Chon, author of Hashtag Good Guy With a Gun ![]() Scarecrow Has a Gun is positively Neapolitan!” -Nick Mamatas, author of The Second Shooter “An intriguing, existential mystery, an exploration of an unhappy marriage, and a paranoid science fiction thriller. Ballard and Paolo Coelho chained together in a basement while a carbon monoxide alarm goes off, Scarecrow Has a Gun is at once disquieting and illuminating, eerie and sincere.” -Martin Seay, award-winning author of The Mirror Thief Suffused with an atmosphere that suggests J.G. Michael Paul Kozlowsky is admirably wary of these enticements, and has put that uneasiness at the heart of this book. A host of technologies exists to reassure us otherwise-novels, to be fair, among them-and each, like an invited demon, ultimately behaves according to its own proclivities. Dorothy goes to the big, almost industrial-looking Emerald City with her sidekicks, innocently kicks the heinies of oppressive witches, and exposes a crooked ruler in Oz.“The coherent self is a fiction: a fairytale we tell ourselves about ourselves. Superman, like Dorothy, was an orphan raised by Kansas farmers, and in his earliest incarnation he travels to "the big city" and battles Depression-era slumlords and crooked mine owners. The superhero comparison dovetails with Depression-era themes seen in the film. Similarly, the farmhands Hunk, Hickory, and Zeke ( none of whom appear in the source material) become the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion. For instance, the despicable Miss Gulch (who only exists in the film) essentially transforms into the Wicked Witch of the West while another silver-screen insertion, the sketchy Professor Marvel, becomes the fraudulent wizard Oz. ![]() ![]() Superman and Batman, both do-gooders with secret identities, gained pop cultural prominence in the 1930s, which is reflected in The Wizard of Oz through the addition of implied alter egos. Time notes the similarity of the characters to superheroes. ![]()
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