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Back Seat Book Club – Book Sixteen: Last Unicorn

Author: Peter S Beagle

Published: 1968

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Plot Summary – The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician–whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended–when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.

Quick Thoughts:

  • [forthcoming]

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.” 

Your Hosts:

  • Lena
  • Sam
  • Scott

Recorded: 11/25/13

Next Time:  A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess