Product Description An Insupportable Light is the original Stinz novel, featuring Donna Barr's half-horse hero back when she thought of him as having two legs instead of four. This is the new 2008 revision. The story begins at the end of one war, with the hope of peace. Then one small incident after another, building and combining like pebbles tossed down a slope, become an avalanche of misunderstandings, broken hearts, fury and revenge. It's about how wars start: nobody wants them, nobody can see them coming and nobody can stop them. Both sides think they're in the right; both sides think they're the Good Guys. You won't find it hard to like and identify with the individuals on both sides, or to understand why they end up hurting each other so terribly. Review Donna Barr s writing could not possibly be like her drawing, because she draws faster than most people think. It comes close in other ways, though. In An Insupportable Light, Barr has found a way, as she does in her comics, to create a world taken from her own brain which we nonetheless are certain we must have read about somewhere in some history book or other. Possessed of an uncanny knowledge of the European middle ages (due to exhausting research or a past life?), she brings a village and a people several kinds of people to life and demonstrates, with a writing style that is part poetry, part irony, how the very worst things can happen, purely by happenstance, to the most well-meaning of souls. Is there a distant future echo in this book, of Homeland Security, or Patriotism acts, of Shock and Awe? I fear so. --Trina Robbins; Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill.Reading Donna Barr's work is like chasing tornadoes; it's exhilarating, terrifying, out-of-your-hands madness that you can't help finding wickedly delicious despite the fact that it can kill you. --Madison Clell; CuckooAny creation from Donna Barr is a cause for celebration. An Insupportable Light is a timely yet timeless fantasy about w