Having given you a book yesterday in which bigfoot was incidental, I now present you a book where bigfoot is central.

Bigfoot.

Legendary lovers separated by time and reborn to be reunited. A woman who looks like a tall Snow White (I always pictured Geena Davis) and wants nothing more than to get a Lois Lane of a reporting job, fall in love, and have babies – but has run through several loser husbands without luck. A handsome newspaper editor who wants nothing more than to run the small-town paper he inherited from his parents during the day and, at night, to quietly get drunk and mourn his wife and baby. Amerindians. Neither of them looking for love.

A crazy, power-hungry fundamentalist. An orphaned 6-year old who dresses like Norman Bates’ mother. A 13-year old budding juvenile delinquent. A guy who I always picture as The Dude.

Did I mention the bigfoot?

All taking place in the remote wilderness of northeastern California, an area they never show in those glossy TV ads for California.

Throw in a lion, a revolution, in French, and you’ve got The Sign of the Wolf, a movie that lacked only aliens.

(There are no aliens in this book.)

All this adds up to a rollicking romp of a book. It hangs together and all makes sense and the plot and storytelling propel you through at a breakneck pace. Hilarious, scary, lightly romantic.

Crying out to be made into a movie, I’ve always thought.

And published, can you believe it, by TSR. TSR? Yes, that TSR.

You know, I always assumed the author was using a pseudonym – John Boston, who has a name like that, really? – and when I checked the copywrite page when I sat down to write this, I noticed something that I hadn’t noticed before: the dedication. John thanks his wife, his agent, and his dad by name. Who does that then uses a nom de plume?

Well, apparently John Boston because his dad’s name is something else entirely.

Too bad we don’t have a hand held device with the ability to search the world’s knowledge and come up with an answer…

Don’t be thinking I’m giving you bigfoot again tomorrow. I think – but am not sure – that this exhausts my fiction bigfoot collection. I could be wrong…

Have you read this book? If so, I’d love to hear what you thought about it. Leave a comment.