The Taxitooist: Author Carol Nightingale Spins a Ribald Tale of the Profane and Surreal

There's a strange, mysterious art -- a form of literary alchemy, if you will -- in the telling of this folk tale. In its most compelling form, it is almost as though the tale being told -- the honest-to-goodness truth as passed down through the generations -- must invariably travel down a meandering path into the realm of suspended disbelief and outright puzzlement.

(PRWEB) April 12, 2008 -- As the pages fly past, the thoroughly intrigued reader might well ask: Can this possibly have actually happened? Can this really be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Or is this just a delightful, wondrous work of audacious fiction, the figment of a writer's hugely vivid imagination?

And therein lies the rub with the best of folk lore and folk wisdom. The appeal of the tale lies more in the mesmerizing quality of the telling, and perhaps less in the actual nuts-and-bolts truth of the matter at hand.

Consider what author Carol Nightingale has done in his new published work, entitled The Taxitooist: Dreaming With A Tattooist. He unfolds the remarkable tale and phenomenal life of one Hanover Schmaltz, an Ontario gentleman -- both a tattooist and taxidermist -- with a bit of a reputation for choosing to exist on the edgy, bohemian side of life.

Nightingale's tale, as narrated to him by one Ambrose Lambertus, a friend and confidante and business partner of Schmaltz, is a flight of surreal fancy. It turns out that Lyzzah, the love of Schmaltz' life, has left Earth's mortal coil for parts unknown -- and Schmaltz wants nothing more than to resurrect her from the dead.

Literally, he dies trying, thus setting in motion a chain of events, occurrence and happenstance in which the author himself takes up Schmaltz' eternal quest in hope of having both Hanover and Lyzzah returned, hale and hearty, from the afterlife.

The story of Hanover Schmaltz and his endeavors touches on the ribald and the profane. As the author himself notes, some of the passages are wild and sensual -- even a bit on the randy side. There is humour as well, the kind best reserved for those blessed with the ability and the willingness to laugh at themselves and their own personal foibles.

The Taxitooist is a lively yarn, a tale very well spun.

The Taxitooist
by Carol Nightingale

ISBN: 9780980902204

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