"The original short story, "The Cloven," by Garth Stein, was commissioned by Hugo House, a writers center in Seattle, as a part of the Hugo Literary Series. The theme for the evening: "Gods and monster."-- colophon. Cover title has V superimposed on O in Cloven.
Summary:
"The Cloven Book One stars James Tucker, the most successful genetically modified human organism ever created. Conceived in a privately financed, top-secret laboratory on Washington State's Vashon Island, Tucker is a cross between a human and a goat -- a Cloven. Known to his friends as "Tuck", all he wants is to live a normal life as a university student; everything is going fine, until he shows a girl his hoofs...,"--page [4] of cover.
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