One of his six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:Freddy's Book by John GardnerRead about another novel on Chase's list.
Gardner's 1980 novel is an amazing work of invention. A professor on a lecture tour is staying at the home of a fellow academic when the host's big, weird, painfully shy son shares a book he's written about 16th-century Sweden and the devil coming in to straighten out affairs. This is a great, great book, and strange as can be.
--Marshal Zeringue
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