Cybele, with bluebonnets

Has anyone read this book by Charles Harness (published by NESFA Press)? I mention it because it's reminiscent of There Are Doors--written in a kind of magic realism with classical allusions, the same themes of lost love, death, and transcendence, etc., etc. Which may explain why Gene Wolfe was asked to provide a blurb which he did in highly laudatory fashion ("There are perhaps a thousand wonderful books. Most of us are fortunate if we so much as hear the titles of them in the course of a lifetime. Very few of us ever touch the covers of more than half a dozen. This is one of them.") Exaggerated but it's still a delightful little read. It's also a lot more overtly (ostensibly) autobiographical. I especially enjoyed the hilarious description of the Battle of San Jacinto--the first person narrator is a Texan (as are both Harness and Wolfe, for that matter). Ron Crown Saint Louis University

H'mmm. I'll have to look for this. Harness's THE ROSE is, imio, one of the absolutely indispensible books of the stfnal heritage.