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Mister Gum

Rhys Hughes

First published 2009
Publisher Dog Horn Publishing
Format Trade Paperback
Type Novel
Pages 108
Price £7.99
ISBN 9780955063190

A "compound novel" with the following contents:

  • Part One: The Creative Writing Tutor: "Oh, Whistle While You Work, and I'll Come to You, My Dwarf" / "Boo to a Goose" / "Whaling Well" / "The Tenant of Arcimboldo Hall" / "Canon Alberic's Photo-Album"
  • Part Two: Up a Gumtree: "The Groin Scratcher" / "Plop Fiction"
  • Part Three: Spermicidal Maniacs: "Where the Sun Doesn't Shine" / "Cop Hospital" / "Plums and Oriels"
  • Part Four: Gum, Set and Match: "The Glue of the Scream" / "Sticky White Hands" / "I am a Slimy Man" (poem)
(Note: the first edition didn't include the last chapter and poem.)

Information from Amazon UK as of 2010-06-11.

Year Reviewer Publication
2009 Stephen Theaker Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, #31

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Mister Gum or: The Possibly Phoney Profundity of Puerilty Cover 2011 Dog Horn Publishing Trade Paperback Novel Giuseppe Arcimboldo 174