Adolf's Revenge — Lynne Alexander

Who is Adolf? Who is she? Big, hairy and hot for revenge. When an Englishman called The Prince carries off her favourite niece, Chick, the heat gets hotter. Aunt Adolf has her own reason for being mad at men. Like God, she makes prophecies ('a baldness on his head!') and ominously quotes the Psalms ('Put not your trust in Princes'). Like the devil, she carries nuts in her handbag. Like Mary, she gets down on her knees and washes her sister Pinball's feet.
Adolf and Pinball on one side of the Atlantic; The Prince and Chick on the other; a big dirty bathtub of an ocean between them.
Adolf and Pinball curse the gods and The Prince ("chop him in pieces as for the pot"). Adolf and Pinball rock and rage and prophesy, but what can they DO? Wave chickens in the air and rock back and forth. Not much. Until one day Adolf has had enough.
Adolf's Revenge is an anti-fairy tale about powerlessness and its cultural and historical roots; it is also about good old-fashioned revenge; sweet to dream, not so easy to effect...