Black Cocktail
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Black Cocktail is a fantasy novella by American
author Jonathan Carroll
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. The book deals with the Plato
nian concept that everyone was originally joined to another human being and spends their lives searching for their missing half.
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author Jonathan Carroll
Jonathan Carroll
Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy...
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Plot introduction
The novel follows the activities of Ingram York, a disc-jockey in Los AngelesLos Ángeles
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. The book deals with the Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
nian concept that everyone was originally joined to another human being and spends their lives searching for their missing half.
Publication history
- 1990. Black Cocktail (August 1990, Jonathan Carroll Legend, ISBN 0712636420, $25.00, 76 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- 1990. Black Cocktail (September 1990, Jonathan Carroll Legend, ISBN 0712621644, $4.50, 76 pages, Trade, Novel)
- 1990. Black Cocktail (September 1990, Jonathan Carroll Legend, ISBN 0712636803, $8.99, 76 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- 1991. Black Cocktail (1991, Jonathan Carroll St. Martin's, ISBN 0312063040, $13.95, 76 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- 1996. The Panic Hand (1996, Jonathan Carroll St. Martin's, ISBN 0312146981, $23.95, 295 pages, Hardcover, Collection)