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Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book)

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Synopsis:

Abish, Alphbetical Africa. A continent forms and crumbles through a linguistic tour de force.

Synopsis:

Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the 'geoglyphic' African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780811205337
Author:
Abish, Walter
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
American
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Experimental fiction
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Subject:
World History-General
Series:
New Directions Book
Series Volume:
D-145
Publication Date:
19740531
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
164
Dimensions:
7.91x5.15x.43 in. .38 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , Abish, Alphbetical Africa. A continent forms and crumbles through a linguistic tour de force.
"Synopsis" by , Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the 'geoglyphic' African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll.
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