A wide ranging compendium of short stories, poems, and miscellaneous writings of Boris Vian. Edited and translated by Julia Older whose last book of Vian's prose (Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stori
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat bea