James Thorne Smith Jr. (March 27, 1892 - June 21, 1934), was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction. In The Night Life of the Gods Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk strikes gold when he invents a device that will enable him to turn living matter into stone and to reverse the process at will. After a chaotic field test he meets stunning 900-year-old Megaera who teaches him to turn stone into flesh. The two and a bunch of friends set their sights on New York City to bring the Greek gods of the Metropolitan ...
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James Thorne Smith Jr. (March 27, 1892 - June 21, 1934), was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction. In The Night Life of the Gods Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk strikes gold when he invents a device that will enable him to turn living matter into stone and to reverse the process at will. After a chaotic field test he meets stunning 900-year-old Megaera who teaches him to turn stone into flesh. The two and a bunch of friends set their sights on New York City to bring the Greek gods of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to life. (wikipedia.org)
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Thorne Smith lived a very fast life, dying at age 42 of, one might say, too much fun. Topper started his career in 1926. Night Life came five years, and, no doubt, many many martinis later. Inventor Hunter Hawk does a patented Thorne Smith "Turnabout" (the title of another 1931 Smith book): while sculptors turn human flesh into stone, Hawk's invention turns statues back into humans, only these statues are the ribald, sexy, mischevious gods of mythology and, once set free, they revert to their mythical characters. And what characters they are! New York becomes the playground for these out of control beings, and the fun doesn't stop until the very last page. Smith's books give us what we can only hope was a bit of insight into the wild days and nights of the Roaring Twenties--something of the flip side of the Gatsby crowd. His oeuvre was, as was his life, much too short. Night Life of the Gods is a treasure and should be on every bookshelf.
