The Truth About Tristrem Varick & Mr. Incoul's Misadventure

The Truth About Tristrem Varick & Mr. Incoul's Misadventure: Two Novels Edgar Saltus Price: $15.95 6" x 9", 296 pages Saltus’s first two novels bear the imprint of the kind of diffident, decadent pessimism The Philosophy of Disenchantment elaborates. Indeed, the sensitivity requisite for the recognition that life has no value informs Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure, the first novel, while the delusion that life has value motivates the action of the obtuse hero of the second novel, The Truth about Tristram Varick. —David Weir, Decadent Culture in the United States, 2008 Though any adjective would suit it better than “delightful,” the strongest novel of the past twelve months is Edgar Saltus’s The Truth about Tristrem Varick. It is a book for our atrabiliar moods, when life seems to be all cant and hypocrisy, fair at the surface, rotten at the core, and we long for some one with strength and sincerity enough to reveal the hideous, latent truth. These moods pass away, and our l